6 Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
7 For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,
8 she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.
9 How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?
10 You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
11 and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.
12 An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;