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Proverbs 6:6

Verse 6 of 35. The 6th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.

2you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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

Read Proverbs 6

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.