Proverbs 24:33
How long sleepest thou, slow man? when shalt thou rise from sleep? Soothly thou shalt sleep a little, thou shalt nap a little, thou shalt join together the hands a little, to take rest; (How long sleepest thou, O lazy man? when shalt thou rise from sleep? Truly thou shalt sleep a little, thou shalt nap a little, and then thou shalt join together thy hands a little, and take rest again;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
In Context
34and then thy neediness as a courier shall come to thee, and thy beggary as an armed man.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:4give thou not sleep to thine eyes, neither (let) thine eyelids nap.
Proverbs 18:9He that is nesh, and dissolute, either unsteadfast, in his work, is the brother of a man destroying his works.
Romans 13:11And we know (at) this time, that the hour is now, that we rise from sleep; for now is our health near (er), [or soothly now our health is nearer], (or for now our salvation, or our deliverance, is nearer), than when we (first) believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:6Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober. (And so let us not sleep like others; but watch, and be resolute.)
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:31-34
The Vineyard of the Slothful. 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Here is, 1. The… Read the whole commentary →