Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: / And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! / How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? / For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.