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Laziness and Perversity

Go to the ant, you slacker—
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler.
Yet it prepares its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

How long will you lie there, slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 and your poverty comes like a bandit
and your need like an armed man.

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