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Proverbs 30:25
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Ants—they aren't strong, but they store up food all summer.
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
Ants are not very strong, but they store up food in the summer.
The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
amtis, a feble puple, that maken redi mete in heruest to hem silf;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their meat in the summer;
the ants are not a strong species, yet they store up their food in the summer;
Ants, who seem to be feeble, but store up food all summer long;
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;
the ants, a species not strong, yet they store up their food in the summer;
The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Ants are small and weak, but they save their food all summer;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meate in the summer.
The ants are not a strong people, but they store up their food in the summer.
the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:
The ants which have no strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Ants: they are weak, but they store up their food in the summer.
The ants, a people, not strong, - yet prepare they, in summer, their food;
The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The emmets are [but] a weake people, which yet gather their meate in the sommer:
An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.
ants are not a strong people,yet they store up their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The ants are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer;
The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
The Emmettes are but a weake people, yet gather they their meate together in ye haruest.
The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people,But they prepare their food in the summer;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The ants may truly be called a people, as they have houses, towns, public roads, etc.; and shew their wisdom and prudence by preparing their meat in due season. Proverbs 6:6-8
Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:8 - General Proverbs 10:5 - gathereth Joel 1:6 - nation
Cross-References
The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.
After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."
But he said to them, "Don't detain me—the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master."
Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!"
So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.
Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son." That is why she named him Dan.
Bilhah, Rachel's servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The ants [are] a people not strong,.... Far from it; what is weaker than an ant? a multitude of them may be destroyed at once, with the crush of a foot. Pliny calls it "minimum animal", the least animal; and the Arabians use it as a proverb, to call a weak man one weaker than an ant: and there is one sort of ants called "dsar", so small that one hundred of them will not weigh more than a barley corn g: they are called a people, because they associate together in great numbers; though small in bulk, and weak as to power and strength; and which is a figure elsewhere used in the sacred Scriptures; see Joel 1:6; and by profane writers, as Homer and Virgil, who speak of bees as a people and nation h; and of nations of flies, and of flying birds, geese, cranes, and swans i;
yet their prepare their meat in the summer; build granaries with great art and wisdom, carry in grains of corn with great labour and industry, in the summer season, when only to be got, and lay them up against winter. Phocylides k the poet says much the same things of them; he calls them a tribe or nation, small but laborious, and says, they gather and carry in their food in summer for the winter, which is a proof of their wisdom. Cicero l says, the ant has not only sense, but mind, reason, and memory. Aelianus m ascribes unspeakable wisdom to it; and Pliny n discourse and conversation; Joel 1:6- :,
Joel 1:6- :;
Joel 1:6- :. It is a pattern of industry and diligence both as to temporal and spiritual things, Ecclesiastes 9:10.
g Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 22. col. 598. h εθνεα μελισσαων Iliad. 2. v. 87. "Et populos et proelia dicam", Georgic. l. 4. v. 4, 5. i Iliad. 2. v. 459, 469. & 15. v. 690, 691. k Poem. Admon. v. 158, 159. l De Natura Deorum, l. 3. m De Animal. l. 16. c. 15. n Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 30.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people” applied here to ants, as to locusts in Joel 1:6. The marvel lies in their collective, and, as it were, organized action.
