6Look at the ant, you lazy person, consider her ways, and be wise.
7It has no commander, officer, or ruler,
8yet it prepares its food in the summer and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat.
9How long will you sleep, you lazy person? When will you rise from your sleep?
10“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest”—
11and your poverty will come like a robber and your needs like an armed soldier.
12A worthless person—a wicked man— lives by the crookedness of his speech,