‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 6:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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? |
‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor; open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
Besides this, since you know the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, because now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.