Proverbs 6:9
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 6:9 in other translations
| BSB | How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? |
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| WEB | How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? |
| ASV | How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? |
| YLT | Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? |
| DARBY | How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? |
| BBE | How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? |
| Webster | How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? |
What does Proverbs 6:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 6:9-10
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 6:6-11
Diligence in business is every man's wisdom and duty; not so much that he may attain worldly wealth, as that he may not be a burden to others, or a scandal to the church. The ants are more diligent than slothful men. We may learn wisdom from the meanest insects, and be shamed by them. Habits of indolence and indulgence grow upon people. Thus life runs to waste; and poverty, though at first at a distance, gradually…
Proverbs 6:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 6:9
- Proverbs 24:33-34
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. …
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Context
- Proverbs 6:8
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
- Proverbs 6:9
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- Proverbs 6:10
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 6:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Perezoso, ¿hasta cuándo has de dormir? ¿cuándo te levantarás de tu sueño? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Jusques à quand, paresseux, resteras-tu couché? Quand te lèveras-tu de ton sommeil? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Bis wann willst du liegen, du Fauler? wann willst du von deinem Schlafe aufstehen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Usquequo, piger, dormies? quando consurges e somno tuo? |