Proverbs

⁵Deliver yourself, as a roe or gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!–[Job 12:7.] ⁷Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸Provides her food in the summer and gathers her supplies in the harvest. ⁹How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? [Prov. 24:33, 34.] ¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep– ¹¹So will your poverty come like a robber or one who travels [with slowly but surely approaching steps] and your want like an armed man [making you helpless]. [Prov. 10:4; 13:4; 20:4.]