6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; 1
observe its ways and be wise!
6:9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there?
When will you rise from your sleep? 2
1 sn The sluggard (עָצֵל, ’atsel) is the lazy or sluggish person (cf. NCV “lazy person”; NRSV, NLT “lazybones”).
2 sn The use of the two rhetorical questions is designed to rebuke the lazy person in a forceful manner. The sluggard is spending too much time sleeping.