Proverbs 30:25
The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
In Context
24There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
26The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
Proverbs 10:5He that gathered in the harvest is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the 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 →