9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. …
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
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…
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