Focused Passage
Wisdom Against Entrapment: Surety, Sloth, Wicked Speech, and Adultery
The chapter moves through five danger zones: financial entrapment, lazy neglect, corrupt character, sins detestable to the LORD, and adulterous desire. It then anchors protection in fatherly and motherly instruction that functions as lamp, light, and corrective way of life.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
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