Catholic Public Domain Version
"How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep? "
— Proverbs 6:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ”
“How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?”
“How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?”
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”
“How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?”
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”
Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,
she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.
How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?
You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.
An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;