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Proverbs 6:5-7
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5 Break free like a gazelle from a trap
    or like a bird from the grasp of a fowler.

Contemplate the Ant, You Sluggard[a]

6 Contemplate the ant, you sluggard;[b]
    observe its ways and gain wisdom.
7 Even though it has no chief,
    no governor or ruler,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:6 Before the French writer La Fontaine, Job too was entranced by the life of animals. Here the ant becomes a teacher of virtue.
  2. Proverbs 6:6 Sluggard: an idler who refuses to work (see Prov 10:26; 13:4; 15:19; 19:24; 20:4; 22:13; 24:30; 26:13-16).
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