Proverbs 6:9-12 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. How long will you sleep, O sluggard?When will you arise out of your sleep?

10. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the hands to sleep—

11. so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker,and your need as an armed man.

12. A wayward person, a wicked man,walks with a perverse mouth.

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