Proverbs 19:15 (BSB)

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:15: See here the evil of a sluggish slothful disposition. 1. It stupefies men, and makes them senseless, and mindless of their own affairs, as they were cast into a deep sleep, dreaming much, but doing nothing. Slothful people doze away their time, bury their talents, live a useless life, and are the unprofitable burdens of the earth; for any service they do when they are...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:15: Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep,.... Slothful persons are generally sleepy, and are very desirous of sleep, and indulge themselves in it; they spend their time, day and night, in sleep and drowsiness; and are quite careless and unconcerned about either their temporal or eternal good; see Pro 6:9; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger; and perish with it, both in a temporal and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:15: a deep sleep--a state of utter indifference. idle soul--or, "person" (compare Pro 10:4; Pro 12:24).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 19:15: Pro 19:15 15 Slothfulness sinketh into deep sleep, And an idle soul must hunger. Regarding תּרדּמה and its root-word רדם, vid., at Pro 10:5. הפּיל, to befall, to make to get, is to be understood after Gen 3:21; the obj. על־האדם, viz., העצל, is naturally to be supplied. In 15b the fut. denotes that which will certainly happen, the inevitable.