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Proverbs 6:10 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep— "

Proverbs 6:10

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8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

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

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—

11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

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Proverbs 24:33

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Proverbs 19:15

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Job 33:15

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"The 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."

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"When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day."

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Psalms 127:2

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"It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones."

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Proverbs 6:1

"My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,"

Proverbs 6:2

"you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth."

Proverbs 6:3

"Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor."

Proverbs 6:4

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

Proverbs 6:5

"Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler."

Proverbs 6:6

"Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;"

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