Proverbs 6:6-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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.