Proverbs 6:2-12

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

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb [the words of your mouth]
  • [b]. Or [humble yourself]
  • [c]. Cn: Heb [from the hand]
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