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Ecc_4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Ver. 5. The fool foldeth his hands together.] A graphical and lively description of a sluggard, fitly called a fool ( öáõëïò ), a naughty person. "Thou idle and evil servant." {Mat_25:26} God puts no difference between nequaquam and nequam, a drone and a naughty pack, seem he never so "wise in his own eyes," {Pro_26:16} and have he never so much reason to allege for himself - as in the verse here next following; a fool he is, and so he will soon prove himself; for "he folds up his hands and hides them in his own bosom." {Pro_26:15} A great many chares he is likely to do the while: {See Trapp on "Pro_19:24"} And as ( Neque mola, neque farina - nothing do, nothing have) "he eateth his own flesh" - he maketh many a hungry meal, he hath a dog’s life, as we say. "Ease slayeth this fool"; {Pro_1:32, marg.} poverty comes upon him as an armed man; grief also slays him; {Pro_21:25} envy consumes his flesh, and he is vexed at the plenty of painful persons, and, because he cannot come at, or rather pull out their hearts, he feeds upon his own.