Proverbs 6:6-13

⁶O! thou slow man (or O thou lazy one!), go to the ant; and behold thou his ways, and learn thou wisdom.

⁷Which when he hath no duke, neither commander, nor prince (nor leader);

⁸maketh ready in summer meat to himself, and gathereth together in harvest that, that he shall eat. (prepareth food for himself in the summer, and gathereth together at harvest time what he shall eat.)

⁹How long shalt thou, slow man, sleep? (or How long shalt thou, O lazy one, sleep?) when shalt thou rise from thy sleep?

¹⁰A little thou shalt sleep, a little thou shalt nap; (and) a little thou shalt join together thine hands that thou sleep (again).

¹¹And then neediness, as a waygoer, shall come to thee; and poverty, as an armed man. Forsooth if thou art not slow (or But if thou art not lazy), thy ripe corn shall come as a well; and neediness shall flee far from thee.

¹²A man apostate, is a man unprofitable, he goeth with a wayward mouth;

¹³he beckoneth with (the) eyes, he trampeth with the foot, he speaketh with the finger,