Proverbs 6:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 6:10 —

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Proverbs 24:33-34
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Proverbs 23:33-34
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard, I. By way of instruction, Ps. 6:6-8. He sends him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

9-10. Their conduct graphically described;