This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text. A collection of scriptures dealing with similar principles is hyperlinked at the end of this post.
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Idler, go to the ant; ponder her ways and grow wise: 7no one gives her orders, no overseer, no master, 8yet all through the summer she gets her food ready, and gathers her supplies at harvest time.
9How long do you intend to lie there, idler? When are you going to rise from your sleep? 10A little sleep, a little drowsiness, a little folding of the arms to lie back, 11and poverty comes like a vagrant and, like a beggar, dearth.
Idler = עָצֵל = ʿāṣēl Blue Letter Bible sluggish, lazy, indolent, slothful
go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
ponder = רָאָה= rā'â Blue Letter Bible to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see
grow wise = חָכַם = ḥāḵam Blue Letter Bible be wise; become wise; act wisely; be made wise; show oneself wise, show one's wisdom; make wiser; deal wisely; to judge, rule;
gets ready= כּוּן = kûn Blue Letter Bible to be firm, be stable, be established; to be fixed, be securely determined; to prepare, be ready; to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up; make provision; to direct; be right, fit, sincere, firm, constant; sure; established, confirmed; enduring; direct one’s face toward; arrange, order
gathers = אָגַר = 'āḡar Blue Letter Bible gather; collect; harvest; gain, profit
lie = שָׁכַב = šāḵaḇ Blue Letter Bible to lie down; rest, relax; sleep; prostrate; pour out
idler = עָצֵל = ʿāṣēl Blue Letter Bible sluggish, lazy, indolent, slothful
arise = קוּם = qûm Blue Letter Bible to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up after lying down (sleep, sickness, mourning, etc.), after falling, after being smitten, wounded, etc., from sitting, reclining, especially at meals; be clearer; get up; pitch; rouse up; stir up; go forth; flourish; persevere; arise (out of inaction), introducing some specific deed; bring on the scene
sleep = שֵׁנָא = šēnā' Blue Letter Bible sleep, dream
A little = מְעַט = mᵊʿaṭ Blue Letter Bible littleness, few, a little, fewness; small; short, shortly; hardly; lightly; small thing
sleep = שֵׁנָא = šēnā' Blue Letter Bible sleep, dream
A little = מְעַט = mᵊʿaṭ Blue Letter Bible littleness, few, a little, fewness; small; short, shortly; hardly; lightly; small thing
drowsiness = תְּנוּמָה = tᵊnûmâ Blue Letter Bible slumber, slumberings, sleep; being asleep
A little = מְעַט = mᵊʿaṭ Blue Letter Bible littleness, few, a little, fewness; small; short, shortly; hardly; lightly; small thing
folding = חִבֻּק = ḥibuq Blue Letter Bible fold (hands), a folding (of the hands), clasping (of the hands);
of laziness (fig.); a clasping of the hands (in idleness); marking the lazy
lie back = שָׁכַב = šāḵaḇ Blue Letter Bible to lie down; rest, relax; sleep; prostrate; pour out
comes = בּוֹא = bô' Blue Letter Bible to go in, enter, come, go, come in; to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring upon; carry; fetch; follow; entering into specific relations; walk, associate with; attain to; cause to come in, gather; cause to come; brought in; eat; have intercourse with; come to pass, be fulfilled, accomplished; lead, bring in; gather (harvest)
vagrant= הָלַךְ = halak Blue Letter Bible to go; proceed, move; enter; follow; go along; proceed; to go with, have intercourse with; to go after; pursue; live, manner of life; go on, go forward; traverse; march; flow, be poured out
beggar = אִישׁ = 'îš Blue Letter Bible champion; great man; mighty man
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מָגֵן = māḡēn Blue Letter Bible shield, buckler; figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile; defence; ruler
dearth = מַחְסוֹר = maḥsôr Blue Letter Bible need, poverty, thing needed; want; deficiency; impoverishment; lack; need; penury; want
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