⁵ let the wise listen and add to their learning,^(A)
    and let the discerning get guidance—

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷ It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹ and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

¹⁸         a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,^(A)

⁴ Lazy hands make for poverty,^(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.^(B)