10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard, I. By way of instruction, Ps. 6:6-8. He sends him…
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