Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, you lazy person? 1 When will you rise from your sleep? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8yet it prepares its food in the summer 1 and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat. 1
10“A little sleep, a little slumber, 1 a little folding of the hands to rest”— 1
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Understand, you stupid people! 1 You fools, when will you ever learn? 1
Proverbs 19:15Laziness throws a person into a deep sleep, 1 but the one not willing to work will go hungry. 1
Proverbs 26:14As the door turns on its hinges, 1 so is the lazy person upon his bed. 1
Jeremiah 4:14Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you might be saved. How long will your deepest thoughts be about how to sin?
Romans 13:11Because of this, you know the time, that it is already time for you to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord is coming 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 →