Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options Listen to Proverbs 6:9-11
Close NKJV

Proverbs 6:9-11
New King James Version

9 (A)How long will you [a]slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 (B)So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:9 Lit. lie down
Listen to Proverbs 6:9-11
Close NIV

Proverbs 6:9-11
New International Version

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?(A)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest(B)—
11 and poverty(C) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

Read full chapter
Listen to Proverbs 6:9-11
Close KJV

Proverbs 6:9-11
King James Version

9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Read full chapter
Next
Proverbs 5
Proverbs 7
Next
dropdown
New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Learn the Bible in 30 days
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV

King James Version (KJV)

Public Domain