7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
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Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? …
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? …
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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