Proverbs 6:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,^[a]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, you lazybones;
consider its ways, and be wise.

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Proverbs 6:5 Cn: Heb from the hand

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