The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Sluggard” it comes from the Hebrew Word “atsel” which means “sluggard, lazy person.”
Solomon warns against financial entrapment, laziness, and specific behaviors God particularly detests. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Proverbs 6.
Solomon warns his son that if he has become surety for his friend, has stricken his hand with a stranger, he is snared with the words of his mouth, urging him to deliver himself quickly, going, humbling himself, and making sure his friend, giving no sleep to his eyes, nor slumber to his eyelids, delivering himself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. Solomon urges the “sluggard,” “atsel” in Hebrew, to go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest, asking how long the sluggard will sleep, warning that a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so shall his poverty come as one who travels, and his want as an armed man, describing the naughty person and wicked man who walks with a froward mouth, winks with his eyes, speaks with his feet, teaches with his fingers, frowardness being in his heart, devising mischief continually, sowing discord, whose calamity shall come suddenly, being suddenly broken without remedy.
Solomon lists six things the Lord hates, yes, seven being an abomination to Him, a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet swift in running to mischief, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren, urging his son to keep his father’s commandment, and not forsake his mother’s law, binding them continually upon his heart, tying them about his neck, warning extensively against adultery, since a man cannot take fire in his bosom without his clothes being burned, closing with the observation that whoever commits adultery lacks understanding, destroying his own soul, wounds and dishonor being what he gets, and his reproach not being wiped away.
Solomon’s memorable instruction to observe the diligent ant, working steadily without any overseer required, offers a vivid, accessible picture of self-motivated diligence that anyone can readily understand and apply. His striking list of things God specifically hates, from pride to sowing discord, reveals that certain character flaws carry genuine, serious moral weight rather than representing merely minor, inconsequential personality quirks.
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