3. So do this, my son, and deliver yourself;For you have come into the hand of your friend:Go and humble yourself;Plead with your friend.
4. Give no sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids.
5. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6. Go to the ant, you sluggard!Consider her ways and be wise,
7. Which, having no captain,Overseer or ruler,
8. Provides her supplies in the summer,And gathers her food in the harvest.
9. How long will you slumber, O sluggard?When will you rise from your sleep?
10. A little sleep, a little slumber,A little folding of the hands to sleep—
11. So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,And your need like an armed man.
12. A worthless person, a wicked man,Walks with a perverse mouth;
13. He winks with his eyes,He shuffles his feet,He points with his fingers;