OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Proverbs 6:10

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A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to sleep—

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Proverbs 6:7–13

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which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

8

provides her bread in the summer,

and gathers her food in the harvest.

9

How long will you sleep, sluggard?

When will you arise out of your sleep?

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A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to sleep—

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so your poverty will come as a robber,

and your scarcity as an armed man.

12

A worthless person, a man of iniquity,

is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

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who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,

who motions with his fingers,

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