provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Proverbs 6:8 in context
Proverbs 6:5–11
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard.
Consider her ways, and be wise;
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which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
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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.
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