ants
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6Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom. 7For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader, 8she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.
25the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,
24Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise: 25the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,
6Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
6Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom. 7For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader, 8she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat. 9How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep? 10You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep, 11and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.
4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
4Because of the cold, the lazy one was not willing to plough. Therefore, in the summer, he will beg, and it will not be given to him.
23Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men.
7Serve with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men.