Old Testament

New Testament

Proverbs 6:5-11 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

5. Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

6. Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

7. They have no leader, chief, or ruler,

8. but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.

9. How long is the lazy man going to lie in bed? When is he ever going to get up?

10. “I'll just take a short nap,” he says; “I'll fold my hands and rest a while.”

11. But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.

Read complete chapter Proverbs 6