Proverbs 18:9
WEB
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
BSB
Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
KJV
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H1571
adv — assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and
Derivation: by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather;
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
KJV: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
adv — also
גַּם 768 adv. denoting addition, also, moreover, yea
H7503
v — slacken
Derivation: a primitive root;
to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
KJV: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See 7495.
vb — sink
רָפָה vb. sink, relax
Qal
1. sink down
2. sink, drop
3. sink, relax, abate
4. relax, withdraw
Niph. idle
Pi. causat.: let wings drop
Hiph. causat.
1. let drop
2. let go
3. refrain
Hithp. hast shewn thyself slack
H4399
n-f — deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property
Derivation: from the same as 4397;
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
KJV: business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
n.f — occupation
מְלָאכָה 167 n.f. occupation, work
1. occupation, business
2. property in which one is occupied
3. work as something done or made
4. workmanship
5. service, use
6. public business
H251
n-m — brother
Derivation: a primitive word;
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like 1])
KJV: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
n.m — brother
אָח 630 n.m. brother
1. brother, born of same mother (& father)
2. indef. = relative
3. fig. of resemblance
4. in phr. one … another
H1931
p — he, she, it, self, same, this, that, as, are
Derivation: of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; he a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular;
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
KJV: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
m — he
הוּא m. הִיא f., pron. of the 3rd ps. sing. he, she, used also (in both genders) for the neuter it
1. an emph. he (she, it, they), sometimes equivalent to himself (herself, itself, themselves), or (esp. with the art.) that (those)
2. It resumes the subj. with emph.
3. Where, however, the pron. follows the pred., its position gives it the minimum of emphasis, and it expresses (or resumes) the subject as unobtrusively as possible
4. It anticipates (as it seems) the subject
5. As an emph. predicate, of God
6. In a neuter sense, that, it (of an action, occurrence, matte, etc.)
7. With the art.: so regularly when joined to a subst. defined itself by the art.
H1167
n-m — master, husband, owner
Derivation: from 1166;
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV: archer, babbler, bird, captain, chief man, confederate, have to do, dreamer, those to whom it is due, furious, those that are given to it, great, hairy, he that hath it, have, horseman, husband, lord, man, married, master, person, sworn, they of.
n.m — Baal
בַּעַל 166 n.m. owner, lord
I.
1. owner
2. husband
3. citizens, inhabitants
4. rulers, lords
5. n. of relation
II. Esp. lord, specif. as divine name, Baal.
H7843
v — decay, ruin
Derivation: a primitive root;
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).
vb — go to ruin
[שָׁחַת] 161 vb. go to ruin (?)
Niph. be marred, spoiled
Pi.
1. spoil, ruin
2. pervert, corrupt
Hiph.
1. spoil, ruin
2. pervert, corrupt
Hoph. spoiled, ruined
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Verse 9
Proverbs 18:9
Note, 1. Prodigality is very bad husbandry. Those are not only justly branded as fools among men, but will give an uncomfortable account to God of the talents they are entrusted with, who are wasters of their estates, who live above what they have, spend and give more than they can afford, and so, in effect, throw away what they have, and suffer it to run to waste. 2. Idleness is no better. He that is remiss in his work, whose hands hang down (so the word signifies), that stands, as we may, with his thumbs in his mouth, that neglects his business, does it not at all, or as if he did it not, he is own brother to him that is a prodigal, that is, he is as much a fool and in as sure and ready a way to poverty; one scatters what he has, the other lets it run through his fingers. The observation is too true in the affairs of religion; he that is trifling and careless in praying and hearing is brother to him that does not pray or hear at all; and omissions of duty and in duty are as fatal to the soul as commissions of sin.