Proverbs 6:9
How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
Proverbs 19:15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Proverbs 26:14A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Romans 13:11See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like 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 →