Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Proverbs 6:9 - King James 2000 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of 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? |
Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
As the door turns upon its hinges, so does the slothful upon his bed.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.