Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 12:24 - 12:24

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 12:24 - 12:24


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We take Pro 12:24-28 together as a group. In these verses the subject is the means of rising (in the world), and the two ways, the one of which leads to error, and the other to life.

24 The land of the diligent attains to dominion,

But slothfulness will become tributary.

In Pro 10:4 רְמִיָּה was adj., but to כַּף standing beside it; here it is to be regarded as adj. to יַד (sluggish hand) supplied from 24a, but may be equally regarded as a subst. (slothfulness) (vid., at Pro 12:27). Regarding חָרוּץ, vid., p. 211. מַס signifies tribute and service, i.e., tributary service rendered to a master. In Pro 11:29 עֶבֶד stands for it. It is still the experience of to-day, as it was of Solomon's time, that slothfulness (indolence) brings down to a state of servitude, if not even deeper, but that vigorous activity raises to dominion or to the position of a master, i.e., to independence, wealth, respect, and power.