Proverbs 6:6

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Proverbs 6:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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

6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

7 Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

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Proverbs 1:17

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Job 12:7

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 19:24

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Proverbs 21:25

The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.

Proverbs 22:13

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 24:30

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Proverbs 24:32

I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

Proverbs 24:33

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 24:34

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Proverbs 26:13

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

Proverbs 26:14

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

Proverbs 26:15

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 26:16

The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

Matthew 25:26

‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Romans 12:11

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.