Proverbs 6:10-11

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

¹¹and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 6 is a father’s urgent warning to his son about the snares that destroy life: financial foolishness, laziness, deceit, and above all, adultery. The chapter moves from practical counsel on cosigning loans to a vivid personification of the sluggard, then pivots sharply to a b