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Proverbs 6:2-13

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2If thou art ensnared through the words of thy mouth, if thou art caught through the words of thy mouth:
3Then do this by all means, my son, and deliver thyself, because thou art come into the power of thy friend, Go hasten to him, and urge thy friend.
4Grant not any sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.
5Deliver thyself as a roebuck from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; look on her ways, and become wise.
7She, that hath no prince, officer, or ruler,
8Provideth in the summer her provision, gathereth in harvest-time her food.
9How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10“A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;”
11But then will thy poverty come like a rover, and thy want as a man armed with a shield.
12A Godless person is a man of injustice, who walketh with a distorted mouth.
13He blinketh with his eyes, he scrapeth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers;

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