Proverbs 6:5-21

⁵Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

⁷Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

⁸Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?

¹⁰Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

¹¹And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

¹²A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

¹³He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

¹⁴With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.

¹⁵To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

¹⁶Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

¹⁹A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

²⁰My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²¹Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.