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

^{7 Ref} Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

^{8 Ref} Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.

^{9 Ref} How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

^{10 Ref} A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

^{11 Ref} So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man.

^{12 Ref} A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

^{13 Ref} Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;

^{14 Ref} In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.

^{15 Ref} Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

^{16 Ref} There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

^{17 Ref} Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;

^{18 Ref} A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

^{19 Ref} A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.