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Proverbs 6:7-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,

8. she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.

9. How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?

10. You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,

11. and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

12. An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

13. he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.

14. With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.

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