4Allow no sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.
5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker;
observe its ways and become wise.
7Without a commander,
without an overseer or ruler,
8it prepares its provisions in summer;
it gathers its food at harvest.
9How long will you lie there, O slacker?
When will you get up 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 need like a bandit.
— Proverbs 6:4-11

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