Proverbs 6:10

You sleep a for a little time; you say, “I will take just a short nap.” You lie down and fold/lay your hands across your chest and rest;

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9But, you lazy loafer, how long will you continue to sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping and go to work?

11and suddenly you will become poor. It will be as though a bandit suddenly comes and takes all that you have.

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:33You [SYN] will think that you are seeing strange/weird things, and you [SYN] will not be able to think clearly or speak clearly.

Proverbs 24:34soon you will become poor; it will be as though [PRS, SIM] a bandit who had a weapon in his hand attacked you and stole all that you had.

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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