⁶ Go to the ant, you lazybones;
    consider its ways, and be wise.
⁷ Without having any chief
    or officer or ruler,
⁸ it prepares its food in summer,
    and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
⁹ How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
    When will you rise from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want, like an armed warrior.

¹² A scoundrel and a villain
    goes around with crooked speech,
¹³ winking the eyes, shuffling the feet,
    pointing the fingers,
¹⁴ with perverted mind devising evil,
    continually sowing discord;
¹⁵ on such a one calamity will descend suddenly;
    in a moment, damage beyond repair.

¹⁶ There are six things that the Lord hates,
    seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
    and hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans,
    feet that hurry to run to evil,
¹⁹ a lying witness who testifies falsely,
    and one who sows discord in a family.

³ You turn us^[b] back to dust,
    and say, ‘Turn back, you mortals.’
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight
    are like yesterday when it is past,
    or like a watch in the night.

⁵ You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;
⁶ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it fades and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed by your anger;
    by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁹ For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    our years come to an end^[c] like a sigh.
¹⁰ The days of our life are seventy years,
    or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span^[d] is only toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.

¹¹ Who considers the power of your anger?
    Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due to you.
¹² So teach us to count our days
    that we may gain a wise heart.

¹³ Turn, O Lord! How long?
    Have compassion on your servants!
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
    so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let your work be manifest to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷ Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and prosper for us the work of our hands—
    O prosper the work of our hands!