משלי 15:19

Hebrew Modern Translation

דרך עצל כמשכת חדק וארח ישרים סללה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
עצל כמשכת חדק וארח ישרים סללה

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
דֶּ֣רֶךְ עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים סְלֻלָֽה ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
דֶּרֶךְ עָצֵל כִּמְשֻׂכַת חָדֶק וְאֹרַח יְשָׁרִים סְלֻלָֽה ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

way of the slothful: Proverbs 22:5, Proverbs 22:13, Proverbs 26:13, Numbers 14:1-3, Numbers 14:7-9

the way of the righteous: Proverbs 3:6, Proverbs 8:9, Psalms 5:8, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 27:11, Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 35:8

made plain: Heb. raised up as a causey, Isaiah 57:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:3 - How long are Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 19:24 - General Proverbs 21:25 - General Luke 16:3 - I cannot Hebrews 6:12 - ye

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns,.... Or, "strewed with thorns", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; the Targum is,

"the ways of the slothful are briers and thorns.''

Either really being made so by his own conduct; who, by his slothfulness, has implicated and entangled himself in such difficulties, that he cannot extricate himself; his way is not passable, at least not very easily; it is as it were hedged up with thorns; see Hosea 2:6; or in his own apprehensions; who raises such difficulties about doing business, which to him seem insurmountable; at least which discourage him from attempting it, it being like breaking through thorns and briers; hence he will not plough because of the cold, nor go abroad because there is a lion in the streets,

Proverbs 20:4; or the way of his duty, especially of virtue and religion, is as troublesome and disagreeable to him as breaking through a thorn hedge, or treading upon briers and thorns; to attend the duties of public worship, prayer, and hearing the word, is very irksome to him; to be present at family worship, at prayer, and hearing the Scriptures or religious discourses read, is like sitting upon thorns unto him. This, as Aben Ezra observes, is to be understood of a wicked man, as the opposition in the next clause shows;

but the way of the righteous [is] made plain: it is a castup way, as the word p signifies; a causeway, a highway, and a plain one, in which a truly righteous and good man finds no difficulty; yea, it is so plain, that men, though fools in other respects, shall not err therein,

Isaiah 35:8; nor is it grievous and troublesome, but, on the contrary, very delightful, as the ways of Christ and wisdom are; his commandments are not grievous, his yoke is easy, and his paths pleasant; and the righteous man walks at liberty and with pleasure in them; and without offence or stumbling, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it.

p סללה "aggestum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "eleveta", Mercerus, Gejerus; "strata", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The slothful goes on his journey, and for him the path is thick set with thorns, briars, fences, through which he cannot force his way. For the “righteous” (better, upright), the same path is as the broad raised causeway of the king’s highway. Compare Isaiah 40:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:19. The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns — Because he is slothful, he imagines ten thousand difficulties in the way which cannot be surmounted; but they are all the creatures of his own imagination, and that imagination is formed by his sloth.