Proverbs 6:9
How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.
10You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
Cross References
Psalms 94:8If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
Proverbs 19:15Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.
Proverbs 26:14Just as a door turns upon its hinges, so also does the lazy one turn upon his bed.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?
Romans 13:11And we know the present time, that now is the hour for us to rise up from sleep. For already our salvation is closer than when we first believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much 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 →