Proverbs 15:19
WEB
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
BSB
The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
KJV
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H1870
n-m — road, trodden, course, mode
Derivation: from 1869;
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV: along, away, because of, by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).
n.m — way
דֶּ֫רֶךְ 715 n.m. way, road, distance, journey, manner
1. way, road, path
2. journey
3. of direction, almost or quite = toward
4. way, manner
5. fig. of course of life, or action, undertakings
6.
a. of moral action and character
b. of duty
c. specif.: in good sense
d. oftener in bad sense
e. way of י׳
H6102
a — indolent
Derivation: from 6101;
indolent
KJV: slothful, sluggard.
adj — sluggish
עָצֵל 14 adj. sluggish, lazy
H4881
H2312
n-m — prickly plant
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to sting;
a prickly plant
KJV: brier, thorn.
n.[m.] — brier
חֵ֫דֶק n.[m.] brier
H734
n-m — road, caravan
Derivation: from 732;
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
KJV: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-) way.
n.m — way
אֹ֫רַח n.m. way, path
1. lit.
2. fig. path, way, of course & fortunes of life
3. fig. way, of mode of living, or character
4. by meton. traveller, wayfarer
H3477
a — straight
Derivation: from 3474;
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
adj — straight
יָשָׁר adj. straight, right
1. straight, level
2. right, pleasing
3. straightforward, just, upright
4. abstr., uprightness
H5549
v — mound, exalt, oppose
Derivation: a primitive root;
to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam)
KJV: cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
vb — lift up
[סָלַל] vb. lift up, cast up
Qal
1. cast up a highway
2. cast up a way
3. lift up
Pilp. exalt her (i.e. Wisdom)
Hithp. exalt oneself
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Verse 19
Proverbs 15:19
See here, 1. Whence those difficulties arise which men pretend to meet with in the way of their duty, and to be insuperable; they arise not from any thing in the nature of the duty, but from the slothfulness of those that have really no mind to it. Those that have no heart to their work pretend that their way is hedged up with thorns, and they cannot do their work at all (as if God were a hard Master, reaping where he had not sown), at least that their way is strewed with thorns, that they cannot do their work without a great deal of hardship and danger; and therefore they go about it with as much reluctance as if they were to go barefoot through a thorny hedge. 2. How these imaginary difficulties may be conquered. An honest desire and endeavour to do our duty will, by the grace of God, make it easy, and we shall find it strewed with roses: The way of the righteous is made plain; it is easy to be trodden and not rough, easy to be found, and not intricate.