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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 ...
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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,...
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Twelfth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:6. _The Sluggard_
6 11. Comp. on this Section Proverbs 24:30-34....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נֹות מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמֹ֑ות
מְעַ֓ט ׀ חִבֻּ֖ק...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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...
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_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_...
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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?...
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WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
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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...
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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...
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Proverbs 6:10 little H4592 sleep H8142 little H4592 slumber H8572
little H4592 folding H2264 hands H3027 sleep H7901
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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...
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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...
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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...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 6:10 A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER. The
sluggard may rationalize his late rising and his too-frequent naps as
“just a little,” but they destroy his productivity....
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Proverbs 23:33; Proverbs 23:34; Proverbs 24:33; Proverbs 24:34;...