Proverbs 6:9 (BSB)

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:9

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:6-11: Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard, I. By way of instruction, Pro 6:6-8.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:9: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,.... Or, "little sleeps, little slumbers" (s). These are the words of the sluggard, in answer to the call of him to awake and arise, desiring he might not be disturbed, but be suffered to sleep on longer: there is a very beautiful climax or gradation in the words, aptly expressing the disposition and actions of a sluggard; he...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:9-11: Pro 6:9-11 After the poet has admonished the sluggard to take the ant as an example, he seeks also to rouse him out of his sleepiness and indolence: 9 How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? When wilt thou rise up from thy sleep?