Teks -- Proverbs 23:34 (NET)

23:34 And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Pro 23:34 - Lieth down

To sleep.

Wesley: Pro 23:34 - Sea

In a ship in the midst of the sea.

JFB: Pro 23:33-34

The moral effects: it inflames passion (Gen 19:31, Gen 19:35), lays open the heart, produces insensibility to the greatest dangers, and debars from reformation, under the severest sufferings.

Clarke: Pro 23:34 - Lieth down in the midst of the sea

Lieth down in the midst of the sea - He is utterly regardless of life; which is expressed very forcibly by one in a state of intoxication ascending the shrouds, clasping the mast-head, and there falling asleep; whence, in a few moments, he must either fall down upon the deck and be dashed to pieces, or fall into the sea and be drowned. Reader, if thou be a man given to this appetite, put a knife to thy throat.

TSK: Pro 23:34 - thou // midst

thou : 1Sa 25:33-38, 1Sa 30:16, 1Sa 30:17; 2Sa 13:28; 1Ki 16:9, 1Ki 20:16-22; Joe 1:5; Mat 24:38; Luk 17:27-29, Luk 21:34; 1Th 5:2-7

midst : Heb. heart, Exo 15:8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Pro 23:34 - That lieth down to sleep // in the midst of the sea // The top of a mast

That lieth down to sleep of which that word is frequently used,

in the midst of the sea in a ship in the midst of the sea. This phrase notes the temper and condition of the drunkard, the giddiness of his brain, the unquietness of his mind, and especially his extreme danger joined with great security.

The top of a mast the worst part of the ship, both for its perpetual tossings, and for the hazard of him that sleeps on it.

Haydock: Pro 23:34 - When

When. Septuagint, "in a great wave." Never is reason more wanted, nor less able to perform her duty.

Gill: Pro 23:34 - Yea, thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea // or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast

Yea, thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,.... Not in the open sea, and the waves of it, there fluctuating and tossed about; nor in an island encompassed by sea; but in a ship at sea, a drunken man reels and tumbles about, just as a ship does at sea; hence the motions and agitations of it, and of the men in it, are compared to the reeling and staggering of a drunken man, Psa 107:26;

or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast: where the motion is the greatest. Or all this may be expressive of the dangers which a drunkard is exposed unto, and of his stupidity and insensibility; for though he is in as great danger as one in the circumstances described, in a storm at sea, yet is not sensible of it; which agrees with what follows.