The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
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Gill's Exposition
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns,.... Or, "strewed with thorns", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; the Targum is,
"the ways of the slothful are briers and thorns.''
Either…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
a hedge of thorns which may be either of his own making (Pro 24:30-31), or of his own imagining (Pro 22:13).
made plain "Heb. raised up as a causey" (archaic form of causeway), A.V. marg.; made a high…
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