Proverbs 30:25
Ants are not strong, but they store up food during the summer in order to have it during the winter.
Translation for Translators
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 animals on the earth that are small, but they are very wise:
26Rock badgers also are not strong, but they make their homes among the rocks where they will be safe.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6You lazy individual, learn something from watching the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.
Proverbs 10:5Those who are wise, harvest the crops when they are ripe; it is shameful/disgraceful to sleep and not work during harvest time.
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 →