New American Bible, Revised Edition

Proverbs 6:4-10 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

4. Give no sleep to your eyes,nor slumber to your eyelids;

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

6. Go to the ant, O sluggard,study her ways and learn wisdom;

7. For though she has no chief,no commander or ruler,

8. She procures her food in the summer,stores up her provisions in the harvest.

9. How long, O sluggard, will you lie there?when will you rise from your sleep?

10. A little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the arms to rest—