Proverbs 6:9
Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8She prepares her bread in summer, || She has gathered her food in harvest.
10A little sleep, a little slumber, || A little clasping of the hands to rest,
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Consider, you brutish among the people, || And you foolish, when do you act wisely?
Proverbs 19:15Sloth causes deep sleep to fall, || And an indolent soul hungers.
Proverbs 26:14The door turns around on its hinge, || And the slothful on his bed.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, || That you may be saved, || Until when do you lodge in your heart || Thoughts of your strength?
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we believed;
1 Thessalonians 5:2for you have thoroughly known that the Day of the 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 →