Proverbs 30:25
ants, a feeble people, that make ready meat in harvest to themselves; (ants, a weak, or a lowly, people, that store up food for themselves at harvest time;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
In Context
24Four [things] be the least things of [the] earth, and those be wiser than wise men;
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6O! thou slow man (or O thou lazy one!), go to the ant; and behold thou his ways, and learn thou wisdom.
Proverbs 10:5He that gathereth together in harvest, is a wise son; but he that sleepeth in summer, is a son of confusion. (He who gathereth together at harvest time, is wise; but he who sleepeth in summer, is a disgrace.)
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 →