Lexham English Bible

Proverbs 6:7-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

7. It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

8. In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

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

10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest—

11. like a robber shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

12. A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with deceitful speech.

13. Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,