Verse 4
The "soul" stands for the whole person (cf. Matthew 16:24-27; Mark 3:4; Luke 6:9; Luke 9:56; Romans 13:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; James 1:21; James 5:20).
"The slothful wishes and dreams of prosperity and abundance . . . but his desire remains unsatisfied, since the object is not gained but only lost by doing nothing; the industrious gain, and that richly, what the slothful wishes for, but in vain." [Note: Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, 1:272.]
". . . fatness, originally the sign of animal and vegetable health and vigor, is used as general symbol of prosperity." [Note: Toy, p. 262.]
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