Proverbs 6:10

You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,

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In The King James Version

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

In Context

9How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?

11and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.

Proverbs 24:34And destitution will overtake you like a runner, and begging will overtake you like an armed man.”

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 →

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