Proverbs 6:6-11

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⁶ Go watch the ants, you lazy person.
    Watch ·what they do [^Lits paths] and ·be [or become] wise.
⁷ Ants have no commander,
    no leader or ruler,
⁸ but they ·store up [get their] food in the summer
    and gather their ·supplies [provisions] at harvest.
⁹ How long will you lie there, you lazy person?
    When will you get up from sleeping?
¹⁰ ·You sleep a little; you take a nap [^L“A little sleep, a little slumber”].
    ·You fold your hands and [^L“A little folding of the arms to…”] lie down to rest.
¹¹ So ·you will be as poor as if you had been robbed [^Lpoverty will come on you like a robber];
    ·you will have as little as if you had been held up [^Ldeprivation like a shielded warrior].