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Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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New Life Version

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie down, O lazy person? When will you rise up from your sleep?

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?
Easy-to-Read Version
You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up?
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 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 Go to the ant, O lazy person. Watch and think about her ways, and be wise. 7 She has no leader, head or ruler, 8 but she gets her food ready in the summer, and gathers her food at the right time. 9 How long will you lie down, O lazy person? When will you rise up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and being poor will come upon you like a robber, and your need like a man ready to fight.

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 of the heavens and the earth when they were made, in the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the children of Adam and of their children's children. When God made man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God 300 years after the birth of Methuselah. He had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was seen no more, for God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: The boat is to be as long as 150 long steps, as wide as twenty-five long steps, and eight times taller than a man.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat, you and all your family. For I have seen that you only are right and good at this time.
Genesis 10:1
These are the families of Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and of their families. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him and said, "I am God All-powerful. Obey Me, and be without blame.
Genesis 48:15
Then he prayed that good would come to Joseph, and said, "The God with Whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God Who has been my Shepherd all my life to this day,

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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