Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
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...
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...
a deep sleep--a state of utter indifference. idle soul--or, "person" (compare Pro 10:4; Pro 12:24).