3. Do this now, beni (my son), and deliver thyself, since thou art come into the palm of thy re'a; go, humble thyself, and plead with thy re'a.
4. Give not sheynah to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5. Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the yad [of the hunter], and as a tzippor (bird) from the yad of the fowler.
6. Go to the nemalah (ant), thou atzel (sluggard, lazy one); consider her drakhim (ways), and be chacham (wise);
7. Which having no katzin (officer, leader) or shoter (policeman) or moshel,
8. Prepareth her lechem in the kayitz (summer), and gathereth her food in the katzir (harvest).
9. Ad mosai wilt thou lie down, O atzel (sluggard, lazy one)? When wilt thou arise out of thy sheynah (sleep)?
10. Yet a little sheynot (sleep [pl.]), a little slumber, a little folding of the yadayim to sleep;
11. So shall thy poverty come as a prowler, and thy need as an ish mogen (man of armor).
12. A worthless person, a wicked man, walketh with a perverse peh (mouth).
13. He winketh with his eyes, he shuffleth with his regel, he pointeth with his fingers;
14. Tahpukhot (perversity) is in his lev, he deviseth rah continually; he stirs up midanim (contention, strife, discord [pl.]).
15. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be destoyed without marpeh (remedy).
16. These shesh (six) things doth Hashem hate; indeed, shevah (seven) are an abomination unto His Nefesh;
17. Haughty eyes, a lashon sheker, and hands guilty of shefach dahm naki,
18. A lev that deviseth wicked machshevot (plans), raglayim that are swift in running to ra'ah,
19. An ed sheker that speaketh lies, and he that soweth midanim (contention, strife, discords) among achim.