3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.Go, humble yourself.Press your plea with your neighbor.
4 Give no sleep to your eyes,nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.Consider her ways, and be wise;
7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 provides her bread in the summer,and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?When will you arise out of your sleep?