Proverbs 6:3-11 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

3. do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

4. Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

5. Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6. Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

7. It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

8. In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

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

10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest—

11. like a robber shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

Proverbs 6