Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
As indicated in the Proverb Ants are very hard, busy workers. Observing an ant hill or colony one will see they all are very busy building, collecting food and protecting the homestead. As opposed to the sluggard, a lazy, idle, sleepy, slow-moving person.
And as suggested observation (and copying) the ways of the ant will make one wise (and perhaps wealthy).
On the other hand, if one continues to act as a sluggard, life will not turn out very well.
Proverbs 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
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