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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Proverbs 30:25
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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 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.
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:
The ants are not a strong people,But they prepare their food 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, 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 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 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 Emmettes are but a weake people, yet gather they their meate together in ye haruest.
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 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 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.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their meat in the summer;
amtis, a feble puple, that maken redi mete in heruest to hem silf;
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;
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
Ants—they aren't strong, but they store up food all 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 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 ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
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
And Yahweh went his way, when he had made an end. of speaking unto Abraham, - Abraham, also returned to his place.
And they did eat and drink he, and the men who were with him, and they tarried the night, - and when they arose in the morning, he said Let me go unto my lord!
And he said unto them, Do not hinder me, when, Yahweh, hath prospered my journey, - Let me go, that I may take my journey unto my lord!
Sojourn in this land, that I may be with thee and bless thee, - for, to thee, and to thy seed, will I give all these lands, So will I establish the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father;
and lo! Yahweh, standing by him, - and he said, I, am Yahweh, God of Abraham thy father and God of Isaac, - The land whereon, thou, art lying, to thee, will I give it and to thy seed;
Lo! then, I, am with thee, so will I keep thee in every place whithersoever thou mayest go, and will bring thee back unto this soil, - For I will not forsake thee until I have done that of which I have spoken to thee.
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid, to wife, - and Jacob went in unto her;
and Bilhah conceived, and bare unto Jacob a son;
and Rachel said God hath vindicated me. Moreover also he hath hearkened unto my voice, and hath given me a son. For this cause, called she his name Dan.
And Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bare a second son to Jacob.
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.
