Proverbs 18:9
Context| NETBible | The one who 1 is slack 2 in his work is a brother 3 to one who destroys. 4 |
| XREF | Job 30:29; Pr 10:4; Pr 23:20,21; Pr 24:30-34; Pr 28:24; Mt 25:26; Lu 15:13,14; Lu 16:1,2; Ro 12:11; Heb 6:12 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “Also, the one who.” Many commentators and a number of English versions omit the word “also.” 2 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. 3 sn These two troubling types, the slacker and the destroyer, are closely related. 4 tn Heb “possessor of destruction.” This idiom means “destroyer” (so ASV); KJV “a great waster”; NRSV “a vandal.” |
