⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard;

consider her ways, and be wise.

⁷Without having any chief,

officer, or ruler,

⁸she prepares her bread in summer

and gathers her food in harvest.

⁹How long will you lie there, O sluggard?

When will you arise from your sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest,

¹¹and poverty will come upon you like a robber,

and want like an armed man.

¹²A worthless person, a wicked man,

goes about with crooked speech,

¹³winks with his eyes, signals3 with his feet,

points with his finger,

¹⁴with perverted heart devises evil,

continually sowing discord;

¹⁵therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;

in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

¹⁶There are six things that the Lord hates,

seven that are an abomination to him:

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸a heart that devises wicked plans,

feet that make haste to run to evil,

¹⁹a false witness who breathes out lies,

and one who sows discord among brothers.

Expand Chapter