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Proverbs 6:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

it prepares its food in summer and gathers its sustenance in harvest.

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A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your female servants.

the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;

How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?

thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.