Consider, ye brutish among the people: And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Proverbs 6:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? [Prov. 24:33, 34.] American Standard Version (1901) How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Common English Bible How long, lazy person, will you lie down? When will you rise from your sleep? Catholic Public Domain Version How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep? |
Consider, ye brutish among the people: And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
Provideth her meat in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
And this, knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.
Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.