Proverbs 3:28

3:28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go! Return tomorrow

and I will give it,” when ¹  you have it with you at the time. ² 

Proverbs 13:4

13:4 The appetite ³  of the sluggard ⁴  craves ⁵  but gets nothing,

but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied. ⁶ 

Proverbs 22:13

22:13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion ⁷  outside!

I will be killed in the middle of the streets!” ⁸ 

Matthew 25:5

25:5 When ⁹  the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Matthew 26:38-43

26:38 Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.” 26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ¹⁰  “My Father, if possible, ¹¹  let this cup ¹²  pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 26:40 Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He ¹³  said to Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour? 26:41 Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 26:42 He went away a second time and prayed, ¹⁴  “My Father, if this cup ¹⁵  cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.” 26:43 He came again and found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ¹⁶ 

Luke 11:7

11:7 Then ¹⁷  he will reply ¹⁸  from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. ¹⁹  I cannot get up and give you anything.’ ²⁰ 

Romans 7:22-23

7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. 7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

[3:28]  ¹ tn Heb “and it is with you.” The prefixed vav introduces a circumstantial clause: “when …”

[3:28]  ² tn The words “at the time” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:4]  ³ tn The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, traditionally “soul”) has a broad range of meanings, and here denotes “appetite” (e.g., Ps 17:9; Prov 23:3; Eccl 2:24; Isa 5:14; Hab 2:5; BDB 660 s.v. 5.c) or (2) “desire” (e.g., Deut 12:20; Prov 19:8; 21:10; BDB 660 s.v. 6.a).

[13:4]  ⁴ sn The contrast is between the “soul (= appetite) of the sluggard” (נַפְשׁוֹ עָצֵל, nafsho ’atsel) and the “soul (= desire) of the diligent” (נֶפֶשׁ חָרֻצִים, nefesh kharutsim) – what they each long for.

[13:4]  ⁵ tn The Hitpael verb means “to lust after; to crave.” A related verb is used in the Decalogue’s prohibition against coveting (Exod 20:17; Deut 5:21).

[13:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “will be made fat” (cf. KJV, NASB); NRSV “is richly supplied.”

[22:13]  ⁷ sn The proverb humorously describes the sluggard as making ridiculous excuses for not working – he might be eaten by a lion (e.g., 26:13). It is possible that “lion” is figurative, intended to represent someone who is like a lion, but this detracts from the humor of the exaggeration.

[22:13]  ⁸ tc The LXX changes the phrase to read “murderers in the street” to form a better parallelism, possibly because the verb רָצַח (ratsakh) is used only of humans, not wild animals. The NIV attempts to solve the problem by making the second line a separate claim by the sluggard: “or, ‘I will be murdered in the streets!’”

[25:5]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:39]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:39]  ¹¹ tn Grk “if it is possible.”

[26:39]  ¹² sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.

[26:40]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[26:42]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:42]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “this”; the referent (the cup) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:43]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “because their eyes were weighed down,” an idiom for becoming extremely or excessively sleepy (L&N 23.69).

[11:7]  ¹⁷ tn Κἀκεῖνος (kakeino") has been translated “Then he.”

[11:7]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “answering, he will say.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “he will reply.”

[11:7]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “my children are with me in the bed.” In Jewish homes in the time of Jesus, the beds were often all together in one room; thus the householder may be speaking of individual beds (using a collective singular) rather than a common bed.

[11:7]  ²⁰ tn The syntax of vv. 6-7 is complex. In the Greek text Jesus’ words in v. 6 begin as a question. Some see Jesus’ question ending at v. 6, but the reply starting in v. 8 favors extending the question through the entire illustration. The translation breaks up the long sentence at the beginning of v. 7 and translates Jesus’ words as a statement for reasons of English style.