proverbs 6: the ant woks without a boss

 In proverbs 6 we read:

1-5 Dear friend, if you’ve gone into hock with your neighbor

    or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger,

If you’ve impulsively promised the shirt off your back

    and now find yourself shivering out in the cold,

Friend, don’t waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess.

    You’re in that man’s clutches!

    Go, put on a long face; act desperate.

Don’t procrastinate—

    there’s no time to lose.

Run like a deer from the hunter,

    fly like a bird from the trapper!

A person guaranteed the debt of his neighbor or the bond of a stranger. His financial future is compromised. The preacher commands a person to get out of that mess like a bird from the trapper. We may commit errors in our life, but we must recognize them and fix them.

6 Contemplate the ant, you sluggard;

    observe its ways and gain wisdom.

7 Even though it has no chief,

    no governor or ruler,

8 it stores its provisions throughout the summer

    and gathers its food at the time of harvest.

9 How long do you intend to lie there, you sluggard?

    When will you rise from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber,

    a little folding of the arms to rest,

11 and poverty will overtake you like a robber,

    and scarcity like an armed man.

The future of the sluggard is compromised by his conduct because poverty will overtake him like a robber. In order to avoid that, he must work, he must do what he has to do. He must have initiative to work as the ant woks without a boss.