19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
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And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19)See here, 1. Whence those difficulties arise which men pretend to meet with in the way of their duty, and to be insuperable; they arise not from any thing in the nature of the duty, but from the slothfulness of those that have really no mind to it. Those that have no heart to their work pretend that their way is hedged up with thorns, and they cannot do their work at all (as if God were a hard Mas…
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