Proverbs Chapter 6 verse 10 Holy Bible
`Yet' a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
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A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
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Proverbs 6 : 10 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Yet a Little sleep, etc. Is this the answer of the sluggard which the teacher takes up and repeats ironically, and in a tone of contempt? or is it the teacher's own language describing how the sluggard slides on insensibly to ruin? The Vulgate favours the latter view, "Thou shalt sleep a little, thou shalt slumber a little, thou shalt fold thy hands to sleep, and then," etc. Habits, as Aristotle in his 'Ethics' has shown, are the resultant of repeated acts, and habits entail consequences. So here the inspired teacher would have it learnt, from the example of the sluggard, that the self-indulgence which he craves leads on to a confirmed indolence, which in the end leaves him powerless. "Yet a little" is the phrase on the lips of every one who makes but a feeble resistance, and yields supinely to his darling vice.
