Proverbs 6:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-7 : 2 For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it. 4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: 5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. 6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    81%

    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
    81%

    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 6:4-8
    5 verses
    80%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

    6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

    7Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

    8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

  • Prov 20:13
    77%

    13Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • Prov 26:13-16
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    77%

    13The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

    14A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

    15The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

    16The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

  • Prov 20:4
    76%

    4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • Ps 127:2
    75%

    2It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

  • Prov 21:25
    74%

    25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

  • Prov 19:24
    74%

    24The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 13:4
    74%

    4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

  • Prov 10:26
    73%

    26Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

  • Eccl 10:18
    73%

    18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Prov 12:27
    72%

    27He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

  • Prov 18:9
    72%

    9He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

  • Prov 15:19
    72%

    19Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

    5He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

  • Luke 22:46
    71%

    46And he said, Why are you sleeping? Get up, and give yourselves to prayer, so that you may not be put to the test.

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

  • Prov 12:24
    71%

    24The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

  • Ps 44:23
    71%

    23Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

  • Job 14:12
    70%

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    70%

    6So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

  • Job 7:4
    70%

    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Prov 6:22
    69%

    22In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

  • Eph 5:14
    69%

    14For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

  • Prov 31:15
    68%

    15She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

  • Prov 23:21
    68%

    21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • Prov 4:16
    68%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Jer 31:26
    68%

    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Exod 5:17
    68%

    17But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

  • Ps 132:4
    68%

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

  • Gal 6:9
    68%

    9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

  • Eccl 8:16
    68%

    16When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

  • Job 33:15
    68%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Matt 25:26
    68%

    26But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

  • Prov 31:27
    67%

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.