Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
In Context
8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 26:14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Romans 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes 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 →