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Proverbs 19:24
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Lazy people take food in their hand but don't even lift it to their mouth.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Though the lazy person puts his hand in the dish, he won't lift the food to his mouth.
The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
A slothful [man] hideth his hand in [his] bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
A slow man hidith his hond vndur the armpit; and putteth it not to his mouth.
The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Some people are too lazy to lift a hand to feed themselves.
The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.
The lazy person buries his hand in the dish but doesn't even bother to bring it to his mouth.
A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.
Some people are too lazy to take care of themselves. They will not even lift the food from their plate to their mouth.
The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it back to his mouth.
A slouthfull man hideth his hand in his bosome, and wil not so much as bring it to his mouth againe.
The lazy man buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.
The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to the mouth.
The slouthfull hideth his hand in his bosome, and wil not put it to his mouth againe.
A sluggard hides his hands in his bosom and will not even try to bring them to his mouth again.
Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.
A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, even unto his own mouth, will he not bring it back.
The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
A slouthfull man shutteth his hande into his bosome, and wyll not take payne to put it to his mouth.
He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even bring them up to his mouth.
The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth!
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.
A lazy one puts his hand in a dish, and he will not return it to his mouth.
The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.
A slouthfull body shuteth his honde in to his bosome, so yt he can not put it to his mouth.
Some people dig a fork into the pie but are too lazy to raise it to their mouth.
The lazy one buries his hand in the dish, But will not even bring it back to his mouth.
A lazy man buries his hand in the bowl, [fn] And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, But will not even bring it back to his mouth.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish,But will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 12:27, Proverbs 15:19, Proverbs 24:30-34, Proverbs 26:13-16, Psalms 74:11
Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 10:4 - becometh Proverbs 20:4 - sluggard Proverbs 21:25 - General Proverbs 26:15 - slothful
Cross-References
The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Then the LORD rained down brimstone (flaming sulfur) and fire on Sodom and on Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,
and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley [of the Dead Sea]; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a kiln (pottery furnace).
Now when God ravaged and destroyed the cities of the plain [of Siddim], He remembered Abraham [and for that reason], and He sent [Abraham's nephew] Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.
"Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it].
Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire; Fire and brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].
If the LORD of hosts Had not left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
And let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew without regret. Let him hear an outcry in the morning And a shout of alarm at noon;
"As [it was] in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with their neighboring cities," says the LORD, "no man will live there, nor will a son of man dwell in it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A slothful [man] hideth his hand in [his] bosom,.... In cold weather to keep it warm, and at other times, as unwilling to use it in labour; it is the proper posture and just attitude of a slothful man. The word for "bosom" is sometimes used for a "pot" or "platter" u; and then the sense is, that he puts his hands under a pot over a fire to warm them; or in one removed at some distance from the fire, as Jarchi; or rather it may signify his putting his hand into a plate of food, and yet so slothful, as it follows,
and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again; so sluggish, that he will rather starve than be at the pains to feed himself; he will not take his hand out of his bosom, to take food out of the dish to feed himself with; and even when his hand is in the dish, he will not take it from thence again, and lift it to his mouth; an hyperbolical expression. Gussetius w thinks, it may have respect to such slothful men, who are careless and negligent to their souls; who, though they have the holy Scriptures in their hands, like a vessel full of wholesome food for the soul, yet will not make use of the least mite out of them, that they may receive eternal life.
u ×צ××ת "in patinam", Tigurine version; "in lebete", Mercerus, Michaelis; "in patinia", Cocceius; "in paropsidem", Schultens. w Ebr. Comment. p. 715.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hideth his hand in his bosom - Better, dippeth his hand in the dish (compare 2 Kings 21:13). The scene brought before us is that of an Eastern feast. There are no knives, or forks, or spoons. Every guest has to help himself, or be helped by the host. Compare John 13:26.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 19:24. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom — Is too lazy to feed himself, If he dip his hand once in the dish, he is too lazy to put it in a second time. It is a strange case that a man, through his excessive slothfulness, would rather starve than put himself to the trouble to eat.
