Proverbs 6:2-11

²For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.

³My son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety.

⁴Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;

⁵that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

⁷For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,

⁸he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.

⁹How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?

¹⁰You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little.

¹¹Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.