Proverbs 15:19
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Webster's Revision
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
World English Bible
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The way of the sluggard is as an hedge of thorns: but the path of the upright is made an highway.
Clarke's Proverbs 15:19 Bible Commentary
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns - Because he is slothful, he imagines ten thousand difficulties in the way which cannot be surmounted; but they are all the creatures of his own imagination, and that imagination is formed by his sloth.
Barnes's Proverbs 15:19 Bible Commentary
The slothful goes on his journey, and for him the path is thick set with thorns, briars, fences, through which he cannot force his way. For the "righteous" (better, upright), the same path is as the broad raised causeway of the king's highway. Compare Isaiah 40:3.
Wesley's Proverbs 15:19 Bible Commentary
15:19 An hedge - As a way hedged up with thorns, troublesome, perplexed, and full of difficulties. Plain - Is easy and pleasant to him, notwithstanding all its difficulties.
