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Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunter,
or like a bird from the hand of a trapper.

Wisdom Warns Against Laziness

Go to the ant, you slacker![a]
Observe its ways and become wise.
Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:6 Or you loafer or you lazybones

Free yourself, like a gazelle(A) from the hand of the hunter,(B)
    like a bird from the snare of the fowler.(C)

Go to the ant, you sluggard;(D)
    consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,

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