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Nov 24, 2024 6:23 PM

  Proverbs 6:6-11 In-Context

  4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

  5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

  7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

  8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

  9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

  10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-

  11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

  12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

  13 who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,

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