Proverbs 6:9
How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 26:14The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed.
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou may be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:7-12
Slothfulness Reproved. 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves… Read the whole commentary →