How long will you lie there, you sluggard?(A)
    When will you get up from your sleep?

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(A)How long will you [a]slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:9 Lit. lie down

26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke(A) to the eyes,
    so are sluggards to those who send them.(B)

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26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
So is the lazy man to those who send him.

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19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,(A)
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

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19 (A)The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns,
But the way of the upright is a highway.

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24 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he will not even bring it back to his mouth!(A)

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24 (A)A lazy man buries his hand in the [a]bowl,
And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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  1. Proverbs 19:24 LXX, Syr. bosom; Tg., Vg. armpit

Sluggards(A) do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.(B)

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(A)The lazy man will not plow because of winter;
(B)He will beg during harvest and have nothing.

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25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,(A)
    because his hands refuse to work.
26 All day long he craves for more,
    but the righteous(B) give without sparing.(C)

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25 The (A)desire of the lazy man kills him,
For his hands refuse to labor.
26 He covets greedily all day long,
But the righteous (B)gives and does not spare.

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13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!(A)
    I’ll be killed in the public square!”

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13 (A)The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be slain in the streets!”

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30 I went past the field of a sluggard,(A)
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
    the ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
    and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest(B)
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.(C)

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30 I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;
31 And there it was, (A)all overgrown with thorns;
Its surface was covered with nettles;
Its stone wall was broken down.
32 When I saw it, I considered it well;
I looked on it and received instruction:
33 (B)A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest;
34 (C)So shall your poverty come like [a]a prowler,
And your need like [b]an armed man.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:34 Lit. one who walks about
  2. Proverbs 24:34 Lit. a man with a shield

13 A sluggard says,(A) “There’s a lion in the road,
    a fierce lion roaming the streets!”(B)
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
    so a sluggard turns on his bed.(C)
15 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.(D)
16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
    than seven people who answer discreetly.

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13 The lazy man says, “There is a lion in the road!
A fierce lion is in the [a]streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
So does the lazy man on his bed.
15 The (A)lazy man buries his hand in the [b]bowl;
It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes
Than seven men who can answer sensibly.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:13 Or plazas, squares
  2. Proverbs 26:15 LXX, Syr. bosom; Tg., Vg. armpit