5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,like a bird fleeing from a net.
6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.Learn from their ways and become wise!
7 Though they have no princeor governor or ruler to make them work,
8 they labor hard all summer,gathering food for the winter.
9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?When will you wake up?
10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,a little folding of the hands to rest—
11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.