11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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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