Proverbs 24:30 (BSB)

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:30

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:30-34: Here is, 1. The view which Solomon took of the field and vineyard of the slothful man. He did not go on purpose to see it, but, as he passed by, observing the fruitfulness of the ground, as it is very proper for travellers to do, and his subjects' management of their land, as it is very proper for magistrates to do, he cast his...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:30: Then I saw, and considered it well,.... Or, "when I saw, I considered it well"; or "set my heart it" (z); when he saw as he passed along the field and the vineyard, he, considered who was the owner and proprietor of them; what a sluggish and foolish man he was, and what a ruinous condition his field and vineyard were in.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:30: A striking picture of the effects of sloth.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:30-34: Pro 24:30-34 A Mashal ode of the slothful, in the form of a record of experiences, concludes this second supplement (vid., vol. i. p. 17): 30 The field of a slothful man I came past, And the vineyard of a man devoid of understanding. 31 And, lo! it was wholly filled up with thorns; Its face was covered with nettles; And its wall of stones was broken down.