Proverbs 6:4-11 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. Don’t give sleep to your eyesor slumber to your eyelids.

5. Get yourself free like a gazelle from a hunter,like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6. Go to the ant, you lazy person;observe its ways and grow wise.

7. The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler.

8. Even so, it gets its food in summer;gathers its provisions at harvest.

9. How long, lazy person, will you lie down?When will you rise from your sleep?

10. A little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the arms to lie down—

11. and poverty will come on you like a prowler,destitution like a warrior.

Proverbs 6