the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 30:25
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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 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;
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.
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
Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore 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.
