Proverbs 18:9

New English Translation

⁹The one who^[a] is slack^[b] in his work
is a brother^[c] to one who destroys.^[d]

Proverbs 18:9 tn Heb “Also, the one who.” Many commentators and a number of English versions omit the word “also.”
Proverbs 18:9 tn The form מִתְרַפֶּה (mitrappeh) is the Hitpael participle, “showing oneself slack.” The verb means “to sink; to relax,” and in the causative stem “to let drop” the hands. This is the lazy person who does not even try to work.
Proverbs 18:9 sn These two troubling types, the slacker and the destroyer, are closely related.
Proverbs 18:9 tn Heb “possessor of destruction.” This idiom means “destroyer” (so ASV); KJV “a great waster”; NRSV “a vandal.”

Proverbs 18:9

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⁹One who is slack in work
is close kin to a vandal.^(A)

¹⁵Laziness brings on^[a] a deep sleep,^[b]
and the idle person^[c] will go hungry.^[d]

Proverbs 19:15 tn Heb “causes to fall” or “casts”; NAB “plunges…into.”
Proverbs 19:15 tn Or “complete inactivity”; the word תַּרְדֵּמָה (tardemah) can refer to a physical “deep sleep” (e.g., Gen 2:21; Jonah 1:5, 6), but it can also be used figuratively for complete inactivity, as other words for “sleep” can. Here it refers to lethargy or debility and morbidness.
Proverbs 19:15 tn The expression וְנֶפֶשׁ רְמִיָּה (v^enefesh r^emiyyah) can be translated “the soul of deceit” or “the soul of slackness.” There are two identical feminine nouns, one from the verb “beguile,” and the other from a cognate Arabic root “grow loose.” The second is more likely here in view of the parallelism (cf. NIV “a shiftless man”; NAB “the sluggard”). One who is slack, that is, idle, will go hungry.
Proverbs 19:15 sn The two lines are related in a metonymical sense: “deep sleep” is the cause of going hungry, and “going hungry” is the effect of deep sleep.

¹⁵Laziness brings on deep sleep;
an idle person will suffer hunger.^(A)

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