Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

This quotation is from the King James Version of the Bible.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

This is from the New International Version.


Here is all the text:

Warning against Idleness and Falsehood

1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,
if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

2 thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
when thou art come into the hand of thy friend;
go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

4 Give not sleep to thine eyes,
nor slumber to thine eyelids.

5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise:

7 which having no guide,
overseer, or ruler,

8 provideth her meat in the summer,
and gathereth her food in the harvest.

9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep:

11 so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth,
and thy want as an armed man.

12 A naughty person, a wicked man,
walketh with a froward mouth.

13 He winketh with his eyes,
he speaketh with his feet,
he teacheth with his fingers;

14 frowardness is in his heart,
he deviseth mischief continually;
he soweth discord.

15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

16 These six things doth the LORD hate;
yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 a false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.