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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

  • 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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