Proverbs 18:9 (BSB)

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:9

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:9: Note, 1. Prodigality is very bad husbandry. Those are not only justly branded as fools among men, but will give an uncomfortable account to God of the talents they are entrusted with, who are wasters of their estates, who live above what they have, spend and give more than they can afford, and so, in effect, throw away what they have, and suffer it to run to waste. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:9: He also that is slothful in his work,.... Remiss in it; hangs down his hands, and does not care to make use of them, but neglects his business: is brother to him that is a great waster: a prodigal man, who spends his substance in riotous living: the sluggard and the prodigal are brethren in iniquity; for, though they take different courses, they are both...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:9: One by failing to get, the other by wasting wealth, grows poor. waster--literally, "master of washing," a prodigal.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 18:9: Pro 18:9 9 He also who showeth himself slothful in his business, Is a brother to him who proceedeth to destroy. The Hithpa. התרפּה signifies here, as at Pro 24:10, to show oneself slack, lazy, negligent. מלאכה is properly a commission for another, as a king has a messenger, ambassador, commissioner to execute it; here, any business, whether an undertaking in commission from another, or...