the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
New Living Translation
Proverbs 30:25
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- KittoParallel Translations
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;
The emmets are [but] a weake people, which yet gather their meate in the sommer:
The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer;
Ants are small and weak, but they save their food all 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 meate in the summer.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The Emmettes are but a weake people, yet gather they their meate together in ye haruest.
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;
The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of 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 food in the summer;
ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
Ants, who seem to be feeble, but store up food all summer long;
the ants, a species not strong, yet they store up 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;
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, but they store up their food in the summer.
An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.
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;
the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide 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 who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer;
Ants are not very strong, but they store up food in the summer.
Ants: they are weak, but they store up their food in the summer.
the ants are not a strong people, yet they store up 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 food in the summer;
The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
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
When the Lord had finished his conversation with Abraham, he went on his way, and Abraham returned to his tent.
Then they ate their meal, and the servant and the men with him stayed there overnight. But early the next morning, Abraham's servant said, "Send me back to my master."
But he said, "Don't delay me. The Lord has made my mission successful; now send me back so I can return to my master."
Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I hereby confirm that I will give all these lands to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.
At the top of the stairway stood the Lord , and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.
What's more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you."
So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
Rachel named him Dan, for she said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son."
Then Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second 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.
