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The Words of Agur

Proverbs 30:25

In 10 translations

BSB
The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
KJV
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
WEB
The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.
ASV
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
LSV
The ants [are] a people not strong, || And they prepare their food in summer,
YLT
The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
DBY
The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
DRC
The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
GNV
The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:
JPS
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַ֭נְּמָלִים עַ֣ם לֹא־עָ֑ז וַיָּכִ֖ינוּ בַקַּ֣יִץ לַחְמָֽם׃

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 6:6–8Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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