Proverbs 6:9
But, you lazy loafer, how long will you continue to sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping and go to work?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8but they work hard all during the summer, gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
Cross References
Psalms 94:8You evil people who rule Israel, you are foolish and stupid; when will you become wise [RHQ]?
Proverbs 19:15Those who are lazy sleep soundly, but if they are lazy, they will be hungry because of not earning money to buy food.
Proverbs 26:14A door continually swings back and forth on its hinges and does not go anywhere; similarly [SIM], lazy people just continually turn over in their beds and never do anything.
Jeremiah 4:14You people of Jerusalem [APO], purify your hearts/inner beings, in order that Yahweh will rescue you. How long will you continue to think about doing evil things?
Romans 13:11Do what I have just told you, especially since you know the significance of the time in which we are living. You know that it is time for you to be fully alert and active [MET], like people who have awakened from sleeping [MET], because the time when Christ will finally deliver us from this world’s pain/sin and sorrow is near. That time ◄is closer than/was not so close► when we first believed in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:2because you yourselves know accurately what will happen! You know that the Lord Jesus will return [MTY] unexpectedly (OR, when some people are unprepared). People will not expect him, just like no one knows when a thief comes unexpectedly at night [SIM].
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 →