Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Proverbs 6:3-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

3. Do therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

4. Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

5. Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6. Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

7. Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

8. Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?

10. Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

11. And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

12. A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

13. He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

14. With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.