Proverbs 6:4-11

⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes

or slumber to your eyelids.

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

⁶Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker;

observe its ways and become wise.

⁷Without a commander,

without an overseer or ruler,

⁸it prepares its provisions in summer;

it gathers its food at harvest.

⁹How long will you lie there, O slacker?

When will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest,

¹¹and poverty will come upon you like a robber,

and need like a bandit.

— Proverbs 6:4-11

(BSB)

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Proverbs 6:10-11

Devo: Daily Wisdom

"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man."

Proverbs 6:6

Devo: Daily Wisdom

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

Cross References for Proverbs 6:4-11

• Proverbs 20:4
• Proverbs 13:4
• Proverbs 30:25
• Proverbs 18:9
• Proverbs 6:9
• Hebrews 6:12
• Proverbs 24:33-34
• Matthew 25:26
• Romans 12:11
• Proverbs 26:13-16

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