Proverbs 19:15

“Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous, etc.] The church of God, which is the righteous man’s dwelling place, and where he desires and delights to dwell; or his own dwelling house; it may be rendered, “at the dwelling of the righteous”f665; lay not wait at his door to observe who goes in and out, and what is done there; and to watch for his halting, and take notice of his infirmities, slips, and falls, and improve them to his disadvantage; and so the Vulgate Latin version, “and lay not wait and seek ungodliness in the house of the righteous”; or lay not wait there for him, as Saul set men to watch the house of David to kill him, (<091911>1 Samuel 19:11); or to…”

“a deep sleep--a state of utter indifference. idle soul--or, "person" (compare Pro 10:4; Pro 12:24).”

“Casteth into a deep sleep - Better, causeth deep sleep to fall. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Casteth - Makes a man careless, and like one asleep in his business. Proverbs 19:16”

“casteth: Pro 19:24, Pro 6:9, Pro 6:10, Pro 20:13, Pro 23:21, Pro 24:33; Isa 56:10; Rom 13:11, Rom 13:12; Eph 5:14 and: Pro 10:4, Pro 10:5, Pro 20:13, Pro 23:21; Th2 3:10 Proverbs 19:16”

“15 Slothfulness sinketh into deep sleep, And an idle soul must hunger. Regarding תּרדּמה and its root-word רדם, vid., at Pro 10:5. הפּיל, to befall, to make to get, is to be understood after Gen 3:21; the obj. על־האדם, viz., העצל, is naturally to be supplied. In 15b the fut. denotes that which will certainly happen, the inevitable. In both of its members the proverb is perfectly clear; Hitzig, however, corrects 15a, and brings out of it the meaning, "slothfulness gives tasteless herbs to eat." The lxx has two translations of this proverb, here and at Pro 18:8. That it should translate רמיה by ἀνδρόγυνος was necessary, as Lagarde remarks, for the exposition of the "works of a Hebrew…”