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;
14Perverseness is in his heart, he contriveth evil at all times; he scattereth abroad discord.
15Therefore shall suddenly come his calamity: unawares shalt he be broken without a remedy.
16Six things there are which the Lord hateth; and seven are an abomination unto his spirit:
17Haughty eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18A heart that contriveth plans of injustice, feet that hasten to run after evil,
19A false witness that eagerly uttereth lies, and him that scattereth abroad discord among brethren.
20Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:
21Bind them upon thy heart continually, tie them about thy throat.
Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6:5-21