⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷ It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹ and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

¹² A troublemaker and a villain,
    who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
¹³     who winks maliciously with his eye,^(G)
    signals with his feet
    and motions with his fingers,^(H)
14     who plots evil^(I) with deceit in his heart—
    he always stirs up conflict.^(J)
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;^(K)
    he will suddenly^(L) be destroyed—without remedy.^(M)