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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 6:6
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Go to the ant, you slacker!Observe its ways and become wise.
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go watch the ants, you lazy person. Watch what they do and be wise.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
Go to the ant, O lazy one; Observe her ways and be wise,
Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise,
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Goe to the pismire, O sluggarde: beholde her waies, and be wise.
Go to the ant, O sluggard,Observe her ways and be wise,
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and be wise:
You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill.
Go to the ant, you lazybones! Consider its ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
You lazy people, you should watch what the ants do and learn from them.
Be like the ant, consider her ways, and be wise;
Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.
Go to the ant, lazy man; consider her ways and be wise;
Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;
Goe to the Ant, thou sluggard, consider her wayes, and be wise.
Go to the emmet thou sluggarde, consider her wayes, and learne to be wyse:
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
O! thou slowe man, go to the `amte, ether pissemyre; and biholde thou hise weies, and lerne thou wisdom.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,
Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!
Go to the ant, O lazy person. Watch and think about her ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, observe her ways, and be wise;
Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
You lazy fool, look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions. So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed? A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest!
Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the ant: The ant has been famous in all ages for its social habits, foresight, economy and industry. Collecting their food at the proper seasons, they bite off the ends of the grain to prevent it from germinating, and lay it up in cells till needed. Proverbs 1:17, Job 12:7, Job 12:8, Isaiah 1:3, Matthew 6:26
thou: Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 10:26, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 15:19, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 19:24, Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 21:25, Proverbs 22:13, Proverbs 24:30-34, Proverbs 26:13-16, Matthew 25:26, Romans 12:11, Hebrews 6:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:34 - and take Exodus 16:21 - General Ruth 2:23 - General Proverbs 3:32 - the froward Proverbs 6:10 - General Proverbs 10:4 - becometh Proverbs 10:5 - gathereth Proverbs 13:23 - destroyed Proverbs 30:25 - General Jeremiah 8:7 - stork Luke 16:8 - done
Cross-References
And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.
Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die.
And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve his people.
God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep to his word?
O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.
They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
I have repented that I have made Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not kept my word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Go to the ant, thou sluggard,.... That art become surety for another, and got into a snare and net, and yet takest no pains to get out. Or this may be directed, not to the surety, but the debtor; who, through his slothfulness, has contracted debts, and uses no industry to be in a capacity to pay them. Or, it may be, this has no connection with the former; but the wise man proceeds to a new subject, and to dissuade from idleness, which brings ruin on families, and leads to all sin; and, for the instruction of idle and slothful men, proposes the example of the ant, and sends them to it to learn industry of it h;
consider her ways; what diligence and industry it uses in providing its food; which, though a small, weak, feeble creature, yet will travel over flints and stones, climb trees, enter into towers, barns, cellars, places high and low, in search of food; never hinder, but help one another in carrying their burdens; prepare little cells to put their provisions in, and are so built as to secure them from rain; and if at any time their corn is wet, they bring out and dry it, and bite off the ends of it, that it may not grow. These, with others, are taken notice of by Frantzius i; and some of them by Gersom on the place;
and be wise; learn wisdom of it, and be wiser than that, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions: this is a mortification of proud men, that would be reckoned wise, to be sent to so despicable a creature to get wisdom from.
h So Horace gives it as an example of labour----"Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris", &c. Sermon. l. 1. Sat. 1. v. 33, 34, 35. & Phocylides, v. 152-159. i Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 5. c. 8. Vid. Aelian. Hist. Animal. l. 2. c. 25. & l. 6. c. 43.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The warning against the wastefulness of the prodigal is followed by a warning as emphatic against the wastefulness of sloth. The point of comparison with the ant is not so much the foresight of the insect as its unwearied activity during the appointed season, rebuking man’s inaction at a special crisis Proverbs 6:4. In Proverbs 30:25, the storing, provident habit of the ant is noticed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard — נמלה nemalah, the ant, is a remarkable creature for foresight, industry, and economy. At the proper seasons they collect their food-not in the summer to lay up for the winter; for they sleep during the winter, and eat not; and therefore such hoards would be to them useless; but when the food necessary for them is most plentiful, then they collect it for their consumption in the proper seasons. No insect is more laborious, not even the bee itself; and none is more fondly attached to or more careful of its young, than the ant. When the young are in their aurelia state, in which they appear like a small grain of rice, they will bring them out of their nests, and lay them near their holes, for the benefit of the sun; and on the approach of rain, carefully remove them, and deposit them in the nest, the hole or entrance to which they will cover with a piece of thin stone or tile, to prevent the wet from getting in. It is a fact that they do not lay up any meat for winter; nor does Solomon, either here or in Proverbs 30:25, assert it. He simply says that they provide their food in summer, and gather it in harvest; these are the most proper times for a stock to be laid in for their consumption; not in winter; for no such thing appears in any of their nests, nor do they need it, as they sleep during that season; but for autumn, during which they wake and work. Spring, summer, and autumn, they are incessant in their labour; and their conduct affords a bright example to men.
