Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 19:24
This humorous picture is of a person so lazy that he cannot even lift his food from his plate to his mouth (cf. Proverbs 26:15). The point is that a lazy person will bear the consequences of his own laziness. This warning is applicable to those who are too lazy to finish the projects they begin. [Note: Whybray, The Book . . ., p. 111.] read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 19:24
24. bosom—literally, a wide dish in which the hand was plunged in eating ( :-). Compare Proverbs 26:15, the sentiment expressed with equal irony and less exaggeration. read more