Proverbs 6:10-21

¹⁰Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.

¹¹Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier:

^11abut if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

¹²A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

¹³And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

¹⁴His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

¹⁵Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹⁶For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

¹⁷The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

¹⁸and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil,—are hateful to God.

¹⁹An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

²⁰My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:

²¹but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.