Proverbs 6:4-11
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Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
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It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
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yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
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How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
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and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.