Proverbs 6:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:6 : 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
  • Prov 23:33-34 : 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast.
  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    94%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:6-9
    4 verses
    88%

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

    7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

    8Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

    9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

  • Prov 6:4
    80%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 19:15
    78%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 20:13
    77%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 6:11
    77%

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Ps 127:2
    76%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Eccl 5:12
    76%

    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Prov 26:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13The lazy man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

    14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy one turn upon his bed.

    15The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it back to his mouth.

  • Eccl 10:18
    75%

    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 19:24
    73%

    24A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

    5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Prov 21:25
    73%

    25The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Job 33:15
    73%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Prov 4:16
    73%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Mark 13:36
    72%

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Eccl 4:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

    6Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full, with toil and vexation of spirit.

  • Ps 132:4
    71%

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

  • Jer 31:26
    71%

    26Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 12:24
    71%

    24The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.

  • Prov 18:9
    71%

    9He who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster.

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

  • Job 4:13
    71%

    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • Ps 76:5
    71%

    5The stouthearted have been plundered, they have slept their sleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

  • Matt 25:5
    70%

    5While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

  • Prov 10:26
    70%

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

  • Isa 28:20
    70%

    20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

  • Job 14:12
    70%

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Prov 3:24
    70%

    24When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

  • Prov 24:30
    70%

    30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

    46And said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.

  • Eccl 8:16
    69%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Prov 22:13
    69%

    13The slothful man says, 'There is a lion outside; I shall be slain in the streets.'

  • Heb 4:11
    69%

    11Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • Prov 12:27
    69%

    27The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Prov 23:21
    69%

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • Job 3:13
    69%

    13For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,

  • Prov 15:19
    69%

    19The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

  • Prov 6:22
    69%

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.