Proverbs 6:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 6:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 24:33-34
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-7
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. …
Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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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. 9)

9-10. Their conduct graphically described;