Verse Proverbs 6:10. _YET A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER_] This, if not the _language_, is the _feeling_ of the sluggard. The _ant_ gathers its food in summer and in harvest, and sleeps in winter wh...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman ...
A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing,...
Twelfth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:6. _The Sluggard_ 6 11. Comp. on this Section Proverbs 24:30-34....
DISCOURSE: 767 THE SLUGGARD REPROVED Proverbs 6:6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard: consider her ways and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathere...
CHAPTER 6 TEXT Proverbs 6:1-11 1. My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast striken thy hands for a stranger; 2. Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art tak...
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: YET A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER, A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP. This is an ironical imitation of what the...
DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15), evils which the Lordhates (1...
Solomon emphasises that we must not be lazy. When it is time to work, we must not sleep. In verse 9, Solomon asks the sleeper how long he will sleep. In verse 10, we hear what the sleeper thinks. He d...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 V1 My son, follow this advice when you make a mistake. Perhaps you promised to pay a neighbour’s debt....
מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נֹות מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמֹ֑ות מְעַ֓ט ׀ חִבֻּ֖ק...
CHAPTER 7 CERTAIN EXAMPLES OF THE BINDING CHARACTER OF OUR OWN ACTIONS "The surety the sluggard and the worthless person." Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 6:12 FROM the solemn principle announc...
AVOID SURETYSHIP AND SLOTH Proverbs 6:1 A young man, being entreated by his friend to go bond for him, consents, in an easy-going way to become his surety. He promises to be responsible for the other...
The parental exhortations are continued. In this section they are directed against suretyship, indolence, the evil man, and certain specific things which Jehovah hates. The warnings against becoming s...
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, (c) a little folding of the hands to sleep: (c) He expresses the nature of the sluggards, who though they sleep long, yet never have enough, but always seek op...
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sle...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
[YET] A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER,.... Or, "little sleeps, little slumbers" s. These are the words of the sluggard, in answer to the call of him to awake and arise, desiring he might not be distu...
Proverbs 6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: Ver. 10. _Yet a little sleep._] Heb., Sleeps; so, slumbers. Though he speaks in the plural, and would hav...
_How long_, &c. O the strange idleness of mankind! who have so many monitors and governors, that call upon them again and again, to excite them to diligence, but in vain! _Wilt thou sleep, O sluggard_...
WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, an ironical imitation of the sigh of the sluggard, A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP! But what is the result?...
6-11 Diligence in business is every man's wisdom and duty; not so much that he may attain worldly wealth, as that he may not be a burden to others, or a scandal to the church. The ants are more dilig...
This he speaks in the person of the sluggard, refusing to arise, and requiring more sleep, that so he might express the disposition and common practice of such persons. FOLDING OF THE HANDS is the ges...
Proverbs 6:10 little H4592 sleep H8142 little H4592 slumber H8572 little H4592 folding H2264 hands H3027 sleep H7901
A WARNING TO THE LAZY (PROVERBS 6:6). The urgency required of the surety in dealing with his problem in Proverbs 6:1, and the possibility that he might be slack in doing so, may well have raised in So...
CONTENTS: Caution against rash suretiship, slothfulness, forwardness, and whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Suretiship is to be avoided, because by it poverty and ruin are ofte...
Proverbs 6:1. _If thou be surety for thy friend._ If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending w...
CRITICAL NOTES,— Proverbs 6:11. One that travelleth, “a highwayman,” “a footpad.” ARMED MAN, literally, “a man of the shield. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 6:6_ INDUSTRY AND INDOLENC...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth ...
Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened b...
Proverbs 23:33; Proverbs 23:34; Proverbs 24:33; Proverbs 24:34;...