Biblia EN/ERV 20:6 | Gospel Downloads

¹My son, don’t make yourself responsible for the debts of others. Don’t make such deals with friends or strangers.

²If you do, your words will trap you.

³You will be under the power of other people, so you must go and free yourself. Beg them to free you from that debt.

⁴Don’t wait to rest or sleep.

⁵Escape from that trap like a deer running from a hunter. Free yourself like a bird flying from a trap.

⁶You lazy people, you should watch what the ants do and learn from them.

⁷Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader.

⁸But in the summer, ants gather all of their food and save it. So when winter comes, there is plenty to eat.

⁹You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up?

¹⁰You say, “I need a rest. I think I’ll take a short nap.”

¹¹But then you sleep and sleep and become poorer and poorer. Soon you will have nothing. It will be as if a thief came and stole everything you owned.

¹²Some people are just troublemakers. They are always thinking up some crooked plan and telling lies.

¹³They use secret signals to cheat people; they wink their eyes, shuffle their feet, and point a finger.

¹⁴They are always planning to do something bad.

¹⁵But they will be punished. Disaster will strike, and they will be destroyed. There will be no one to help them.