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Contemplate the Ant, You Sluggard[a]

Contemplate the ant, you sluggard;[b]
    observe its ways and gain wisdom.

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  1. Proverbs 6:6 Before the French writer La Fontaine, Job too was entranced by the life of animals. Here the ant becomes a teacher of virtue.
  2. Proverbs 6:6 Sluggard: an idler who refuses to work (see Prov 10:26; 13:4; 15:19; 19:24; 20:4; 22:13; 24:30; 26:13-16).

A son who gathers the crops during the summer is wise,
    but a son who sleeps at harvest-time[a] is shameful.

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  1. Proverbs 10:5 Sleeps at harvest-time: the same condemnation is found in Prov 6:9-11; 19:15; 20:13.