Proverbs 24:30-34

30-34. This is a most instructive parable, and needs little explication, though much might be said in amplification. A few notes must suffice.

I went by Not casually and carelessly, but as a diligent observer.

All grown over The “thorns” in the vineyard and the “nettles” in the field had crowded out the grain which the one should have produced, and the fruit which ought to have adorned the other, and both which should have enriched their owner. The language is very forcible. Then I gazed; I considered, or set my heart; I saw, I received admonition. His solemn premonition to the sluggard follows. Comp. Proverbs 6:9. As one that travelleth Probably a highwayman.

An armed man A man of the shield possibly alluding to the king’s executioners. These last two verses are the same as Proverbs 6:10-11, where see notes.