Proverbs 6:10

You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?

11Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:33Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

Proverbs 24:34But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

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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