Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pigredo immittit soporem, et anima dissoluta esuriet.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 19:12
- δειλία κατέχει ἀνδρογύναιον, ψυχὴ δὲ ἀεργοῦ πεινάσει.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַ֭צְלָה תַּפִּ֣יל תַּרְדֵּמָ֑ה וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ רְמִיָּ֣ה תִרְעָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Hunger. Both temporal and eternal. (Calmet)
Non progredi, regredi est. St. Bernard says, "Not to advance, is to go back."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How the slothful and the hasty are to be admonished
( Admonition 16.) Differently to be admonished are the slothful and the hasty. For the former are to be persuaded not to lose, by putting it off, the good they have to do; but the latter are to be admonished lest, while they forestall the time of good deeds by inconsiderate haste, they change their meritorious character. To the slothful therefore it is to be intimated, that often, when we will not do at the right time what we can, before long, when we will, we cannot. For the very indolence of the mind, when it is not kindled with befitting fervour, gets cut off by a torpor that stealthily grows upon it from all desire of good things. Whence it is plainly said through Solomon, Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep ( Prov. xix. 15 ). …