The interpretation timeline

Prov 23:21

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 23:21 · Douay-Rheims
“Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“And dressed in rags will be the sluggard. For his death will find him despicable and devoid of all good works, as his languor occupied him here in seeking the crimes of another's life through slander.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.