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Proverbs 6:6-16 New International Version (NIV)

6. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

8. yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

9. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

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

11. and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

12. A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13. who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,

14. who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.

15. Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

16. There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:

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