yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.
Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.