Proverbs

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.] ¹²A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth. ¹³He winks with his eyes, he speaks by shuffling or tapping with his feet, he makes signs [to mislead and deceive] and teaches with his fingers. ¹⁴Willful and contrary in his heart, he devises trouble, vexation, and evil continually; he lets loose discord and sows it. ¹⁵Therefore upon him shall the crushing weight of calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.