6:4 Permit no sleep to your eyes 1
or slumber to your eyelids.
6:5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, 2
and like a bird from the trap 3 of the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; 4
observe its ways and be wise!
6:7 It has no commander,
overseer, or 5 ruler,
6:8 yet it prepares its food in the summer;
it gathers at the harvest what it will eat. 6
6:9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there?
When will you rise from your sleep? 7
6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to relax, 8
6:11 and your poverty will come like a robber, 9
and your need like an armed man. 10