Proverbs 30:25
the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
In Context
24Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
26the rabbit, a sickened people who make their bed upon the rock.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
Proverbs 10:5He who gathers the harvest is a wise son. But he who snores in warm weather is a son of confusion.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:25-29
Four Things Little and Wise. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four… Read the whole commentary →