6 Go to the nemalah (ant), thou atzel (sluggard, lazy one);

consider her drakhim (ways), and be chacham (wise);

7 Which having no katzin (officer, leader)

or shoter (policeman) or moshel,

8 Prepareth her lechem in the kayitz (summer),

and gathereth her food in the katzir (harvest).

9 Ad mosai wilt thou lie down, O atzel (sluggard, lazy one)?

When wilt thou arise out of thy sheynah (sleep)?

10 Yet a little sheynot (sleep ),*6:10 pl. a little slumber,

a little folding of the yadayim to sleep;

11 So shall thy poverty come as a prowler,

and thy need as an ish mogen (man of armor).