The sluggard characterized: How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? The direct question appeals to the sluggards conscience. Lie there and get up from your sleep frame laziness as a kind of sleep. The repeated motion of lying down and staying asleep suggests that laziness is a vice of increasing severity. Once one yields to sloth, the habit deepens. The rhetorical question is meant to shock the lazy person into awareness of his condition.

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