Proverbs 10:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Proverbs 10:5 —

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Proverbs 6:8
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Proverbs 19:26
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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Corn Diligence Economics Frugality Harvest Idleness Industry Labor

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5)

Here is, 1. The just praise of those who improve their opportunities, who take pains to gather and increase what they have, both for soul and body, who provide for hereafter while provision is to be made, who gather in summer, which is gathering time. He who does so is a wise son, and it is his honour; he acts wisely for his parents, whom, if there be occasion, he ought to maintain, and he gives r…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. son--as Pr 1:8, 10, and often. sleepeth--in indolence, and not for rest. causeth shame--literally, “is base” (compare Pr 14:35; 17:2).