As
vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send
them…
Vinegar
eats away enamel, destroying teeth.
Smoke hurts and blinds, damaging eyesight. Neither of those sound desirable to me. In fact, they're both destructive.
A
sluggard is a lazy person, and the curious thing about this verse it says the
sluggard is like vinegar and smoke to “those who send them.”
In
other words when a lazy person is sent to do a job by an employer, nothing good will happen. In fact, that which
was good will be destroyed.
This
whole 10th chapter of Proverbs compares fools to the wise – and
being lazy is foolish.
Laziness
is not restfulness, and the wise know the difference.
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