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Proverbs 6:4-14

4 Don't procrastinate - there's no time to lose.

4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

5 Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper! A Lesson from the Ant

5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6 You lazy fool, look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two.

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7 Nobody has to tell it what to do.

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

8 All summer it stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions.

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

9 So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed?

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

10 A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy - do you know what comes next?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

11 Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest! Always Cooking Up Something Nasty

11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

12 Riffraff and rascals talk out of both sides of their mouths.

12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13 They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet, they cross their fingers behind their backs.

13 who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,

14 Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty, always stirring up trouble.

14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.