Proverbs 6:9

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:9 in Other Translations

9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up?

9 So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed?

9 How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:9 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 6:9

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
&c.] Or "lie" ^F17 in bed, indulging in sloth and ease; while the industrious ant is busy in getting in its provisions, even by moonlight, as naturalists ^F18 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (bkvt) "jacebis", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus; "cubabis", Piscator, Cocceius.
F18 Aelian. de Animal. l. 4. c. 43.

Proverbs 6:9 In-Context

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Cross References

• 1. Proverbs 24:30-34; Proverbs 26:13-16