Proverbs 21:26 (BSB)

All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:25-26: Here we have, 1. The miseries of the slothful, whose hands refuse to labour in an honest calling, by which they might get an honest livelihood. They are as fit for labour as other men, and business offers itself, to which they might lay their hands and apply their minds, but they will not; herein they fondly think they do well for themselves, see Pro 26:16. Soul, take thy ease.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:26: He coveteth greedily all the day long,.... The slothful man does, as he has nothing to do to employ his time and his thoughts with; he is always craving something to eat and drink, or wishing he had such an estate, or so much wealth and riches, that he might live as such and such persons do; and this is what his head runs upon...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:26: The sin of covetousness marks the sluggard, as the virtue of benevolence the righteous.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:26: Pro 21:26 26 One always desireth eagerly; But the righteous giveth and holdeth not back. Otherwise Fleischer: per totum diem avet avidus, i.e., avarus; but that in התאוּה תּאוה the verb is connected with its inner obj. is manifest from Num 11:4; it is the mode of expression which is called in the Greek syntax schema etymologicum, and which is also possible without an adj.