Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
26The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 10:5A wise son gathereth in summer; but a son that doeth shamefully sleepeth in harvest.
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 →