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you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.
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So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.
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Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
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Without having any chief or officer or ruler,
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it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
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How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
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A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,