(A)How long will you lie there, (B)O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
10 (C)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    (D)a little (E)folding of the hands to rest,
11 (F)and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

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How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
    When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest –
11 and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

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How long wilt thou [a]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 [b]sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as a [c]robber,
And thy want as [d]an armed man.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:9 Hebrew lie down.
  2. Proverbs 6:10 Hebrew lie down.
  3. Proverbs 6:11 Or, rover
  4. Proverbs 6:11 Hebrew a man with a shield.

A slack hand (A)causes poverty,
    (B)but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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Lazy hands make for poverty,
    but diligent hands bring wealth.

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He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand;
But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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(A)The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent (B)is richly supplied.

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A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing;
But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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15 (A)Slothfulness casts into (B)a deep sleep,
    and (C)an idle person will suffer hunger.

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15 Laziness brings on deep sleep,
    and the shiftless go hungry.

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15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep;
And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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24 (A)The hand of the diligent will rule,
    while the slothful will be (B)put to forced labor.

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24 Diligent hands will rule,
    but laziness ends in forced labour.

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24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule;
But [a]the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:24 Hebrew slothfulness.

(A)The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
    (B)he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

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Sluggards do not plough in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
[a]Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:4 Or, Therefore when he seeketh in harvest, there shall be nothing