Text -- Proverbs 18:9 (NET)

18:9 The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 18:9

¹ tn Heb “Also, the one who.” Many commentators and a number of English versions omit the word “also.”

² tn The form מִתְרַפֶּה (mitrappeh) is the Hitpael participle, “showing oneself slack.” The verb means “to sink; to relax,” and in the causative stem “to let drop” the hands. This is the lazy person who does not even try to work.

³ sn These two troubling types, the slacker and the destroyer, are closely related.

⁴ tn Heb “possessor of destruction.” This idiom means “destroyer” (so ASV); KJV “a great waster”; NRSV “a vandal.”