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How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?

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How long wilt thou [a]sleep, O sluggard?
When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

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  1. Proverbs 6:9 Hebrew lie down.

26 Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.

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26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
So is the sluggard to them that send him.

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19 The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns,
    but the path of the upright is a level highway.

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19 The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns;
But the path of the upright is made a highway.

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24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish,
    and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

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24 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish,
And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
    he will seek at harvest and have 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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  1. Proverbs 20:4 Or, Therefore when he seeketh in harvest, there shall be nothing

25 The desire of the sluggard kills him
    for his hands refuse to labor.
26 All day long the wicked covets,[a]
    but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

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  1. Proverbs 21:26 Gk: Heb all day long he covets covetously

25 The desire of the sluggard killeth him;
For his hands refuse to labor.
26 There is that coveteth greedily all the day long;
But the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.

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13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
    I shall be slain in the streets!”

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13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without;
I shall be slain in the streets.

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30 I passed by the field of a sluggard,
    by the vineyard of a man without sense;
31 and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns;
    the ground was covered with nettles,
    and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and considered it;
    I looked and received instruction.
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

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30 I went by the field of the sluggard,
And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,
The face thereof was covered with [a]nettles,
And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
32 Then I beheld, and considered well;
I saw, and received instruction:
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep;
34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber,
And thy want as an armed man.

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  1. Proverbs 24:31 Or, wild vetches

13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
    There is a lion in the streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
    so does a sluggard on his bed.
15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
    than seven men who can answer discreetly.

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13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way;
A lion is in the streets.
14 As the door turneth upon its hinges,
So doth the sluggard upon his bed.
15 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish;
It wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in [a]his own conceit
Than seven men that can [b]render a reason.

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  1. Proverbs 26:16 Hebrew his own eyes.
  2. Proverbs 26:16 Or, answer discreetly