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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Proverbios 26:15
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- InternationalParallel Translations
El perezoso mete la mano en el plato, pero se fatiga de llevársela a la boca.
Esconde el perezoso su mano en el seno; C�nsase de tornarla � su boca.
Esconde el perezoso su mano en el seno; se cansa de volverla a su boca.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
slothful: Proverbs 19:24
it grieveth him: or, he is weary
Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:27 - slothful
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom,.... To keep it warm; Jarchi's note is,
"he puts his hand in a hot basin, because of the cold.''
The word c for "bosom" does sometimes signify a "pot" or basin. Or he hides it under his "arm holes", as some render it, not caring to make use of it for labour; or covers it out of sight in his bosom, pretending some weakness or ailment in it, which hinders him from working; see Proverbs 19:24;
it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth; from under his arm holes, or out of his bosom, or even out of the platter, where his food is; an hyperbolical expression, setting forth his excessive sloth; and such an one ought not to eat, but starve indeed. It may be rendered, "he is weary"; it is a "weariness" d to him; it is even a labour too much for him to feed himself, so great is his sloth: and such is the sloth of carnal men; it is a weariness to them to hear the word, and attend on ordinances, and to lift up their hands in prayer to God; or to make use of any means, that they may have food for their souls; praying, hearing, and reading, are a burden to them; and therefore it is but just with God to send them a famine of the word, and take away the whole stay and staff of bread and water.
c בצלחת "in patina vel olla", Vatablus; "in patinam", Tigurine version; "lebete", Mercerus; "in paropside", Cocceius; "in paropsidem", Schultens. d נלאה "fatigatur", Mercerus, Gejerus; "defessus fit", Michaelis; "defetiscitur", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Grieveth him - Better, wearieth him.
