Common English Bible

Proverbs 6:2-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

2. you will be trapped by your words;you will be caught by your words.

3. Do this, my son, to get out of it,for you have come under the control of your neighbor.So go, humble yourself, and pester your neighbor.

4. Don’t give sleep to your eyesor slumber to your eyelids.

5. Get yourself free like a gazelle from a hunter,like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6. Go to the ant, you lazy person;observe its ways and grow wise.

7. The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler.

8. Even so, it gets its food in summer;gathers its provisions at harvest.

9. How long, lazy person, will you lie down?When will you rise from your sleep?