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Proverbs 6:9

You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idleness;   Rising;   Sleep;   Slothfulness;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Indolent Sleep;   Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Early Rising;   Idleness and Sloth;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Israel, History of;   Proverbs, Book of;   Slothful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Education;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sluggard;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Menander;   Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?When will you get up from your sleep?
Hebrew Names Version
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
King James Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
English Standard Version
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
New Century Version
How long will you lie there, you lazy person? When will you get up from sleeping?
New English Translation
How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
Amplified Bible
How long will you lie down, O lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep [and learn self-discipline]?
New American Standard Bible
How long will you lie down, you lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep?
World English Bible
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
Legacy Standard Bible
How long will you lie down, O sluggard?When will you arise from your sleep?
Berean Standard Bible
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Contemporary English Version
How long will you lie there doing nothing at all? When are you going to get up and stop sleeping?
Complete Jewish Bible
Lazybones! How long will you lie there in bed? When will you get up from your sleep?
Darby Translation
How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
George Lamsa Translation
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?
Literal Translation
How long will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How loge wilt thou slepe, thou slogish ma? Wha wilt thou aryse out of thy slepe?
American Standard Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Bible in Basic English
How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
King James Version (1611)
How long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe long wylt thou sleepe thou sluggishe man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy sleepe?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
English Revised Version
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou long schalt thou, slow man, slepe? whanne schalt thou rise fro thi sleep?
Update Bible Version
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Webster's Bible Translation
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
New King James Version
How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
New Living Translation
But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up?
New Life Bible
How long will you lie down, O lazy person? When will you rise up from your sleep?
New Revised Standard
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? how long ere thou rise from thy sleep?
Douay-Rheims Bible
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Revised Standard Version
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Young's Literal Translation
Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

Contextual Overview

6 You lazy people, you should watch what the ants do and learn from them. 7 Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader. 8 But in the summer, ants gather all of their food and save it. So when winter comes, there is plenty to eat. 9 You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up? 10 You say, "I need a rest. I think I'll take a short nap." 11 But then you sleep and sleep and become poorer and poorer. Soon you will have nothing. It will be as if a thief came and stole everything you owned.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Jeremiah 4:14

when: Psalms 94:8, John 1:6, Romans 13:11, Ephesians 5:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:14 - How long Psalms 62:3 - How Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 19:15 - casteth Proverbs 19:24 - General Proverbs 20:13 - Love Proverbs 23:21 - drowsiness Proverbs 26:14 - General Matthew 17:17 - how long shall I be Mark 13:36 - he find

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.
Genesis 5:1
This is the history of Adam's family. When God created people, he made them like himself.
Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God for 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
One day Enoch was walking with God, and he disappeared. God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah's family. He was a good man all his life, and he always followed God.
Genesis 6:15
"This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Genesis 10:1
This is the history of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They are Noah's sons. These men had children after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors, Abraham and Isaac, worshiped our God, and that God has led me all my life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?.... Or "lie" q in bed, indulging in sloth and ease; while the industrious ant is busy in getting in its provisions, even by moonlight, as naturalists r observe;

when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? and be about thy lawful calling? doing the duties of religion, and the business of life; providing things honest in the sight of all men; things necessary for thyself and family, and wherewith to do good to others; exercising a conscience void of offence both to God and men. Time should not be slept away, to the neglect of the affairs of life, nor of the concerns of the immortal soul and a future state; men should not be slothful in things temporal or spiritual: whatever may be the proper time to awake and arise out of sleep in a morning, which seems to be according to a man's circumstances, health and business; it is always high time for the sinner to awake out of the sleep of sin, and arise from the dead; and for the drowsy saint to arise out of his lethargy and carnal security.

q תשכב "jacebis", Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Gejerus "cubabis", Piscator, Cocceius. r Aelian. de Animal. l. 4. c. 43.


 
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