5. Escape as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,
7. Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8. provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11. So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.
12. A wicked man of Belial walks with a perverse mouth.
13. He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
14. there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
15. Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
16. These six things does the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18. a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
19. a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
20. My son, keep thy father’s commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21. Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck.
22. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23. For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,
24. to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.