George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 23:21
Rags. At death the insolent shall be exposed to shame.
Rags. At death the insolent shall be exposed to shame.
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
POVERTY. dispossession. Hebrew. _yarash._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....
_drowsiness_ occasioned by excess of meat and drink. Comp. Luke 21:34....
TEXT Proverbs 23:13-23 13. Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol...
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. AND DROWSINESS (THE NATURAL EFFECT OF EXCESS IN EATING AND DRINKING, ) SHALL CLOTHE (A MAN) WIT...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
The DROWSINESS follows nights of intemperance....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat!...
The father warns his son. The son must not be greedy for food. And he must not be a drunk. This is because greedy people and drunks become lazy. They want only to eat and to drink. They do not want to...
DROWSINESS, that follows after such debauches....
כִּי ־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭ זֹולֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝ קְרָעִ
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
FOR THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY,.... They consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating and drinking; see Proverbs 21:17; AND DROWSINESS SHALL CLOTHE [A MAN] WITH RAG...
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. Ver. 21. _For the drunkard shall come to poverty._] Nay, to eternal misery in hell; 1Co 6:10 but...
_Hear and be wise_ Rest not in hearing, but see that thou grow wiser and better by it. _And guide thy heart in the way_ Order the whole course of thine affections and actions in God's way, often terme...
V. 21. FOR THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY, all his property being dissipated in riotous living; AND DROWSINESS, the laziness and apathy into which the intemperate man is bound to s...
DROWSINESS; immoderate sleep and idleness, which is a ready a way to poverty as gluttony or drunkenness is....
Proverbs 23:21 drunkard H5433 (H8802) glutton H2151 (H8802) poverty H3423 (H8735) drowsiness H5124 clothe H3847
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated _envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; Deuteronomy 21:20; Galatians 5:21;...