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Proverbs 6:9

Old Testament Wisdom/Poetry ASV (1901)

What does Proverbs 6:9 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 6:9 — American Standard Version

Context — Proverbs 6

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
7Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
8Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.
9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
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What do historical commentaries say?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“Their conduct graphically described;”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“How: Pro 1:22, Pro 24:33, Pro 24:34; Jer 4:14 when: Psa 94:8; Joh 1:6; Rom 13:11; Eph 5:14; Th1 5:2-7 Proverbs 6:10”
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Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · Commentary on the Old Testament · 19th-century historical commentary
“After the poet has admonished the sluggard to take the ant as an example, he seeks also to rouse him out of his sleepiness and indolence: 9 How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? When wilt thou rise up from thy sleep? 10 "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest!" 11 So comes like a strong robber thy poverty, And thy want as an armed man. Pro 6:9-10 The awakening cry, Pro 6:9, is not of the kind that Paul could have it in his mind, Eph 5:14. עצל has, as the vocative, Pasek after it, and is, on account of the Pasek, in correct editions accentuated not with Munach, but Mercha. The words, Pro 6:10, are not an ironical call (sleep only yet a little while, but in…”
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