Proverbs 6:6-8(v25)Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer,…
Psalms 104:18(v26)The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
Leviticus 11:5(v26)The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
Exodus 10:4-6(v27)Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, and they shall cover the surface of…
Psalms 105:34(v27)He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number,
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Joel 1:6-7(v27)For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. He…
Joel 2:7-11(v27)They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course. Neither does…
Joel 2:25(v27)I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army,…
Exodus 10:13-15(v27)Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it…
Joel 1:4(v27)What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the…
Revelation 9:3-11(v27)Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were told that…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn v28If man be not able to compass these common…
If man be not able to compass these common things by his wisdom, we cannot attribute wisdom to man, but folly.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv25–28Pro 30:25 The ants [are] a people not strong,…
Pro 30:25 The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Ver. 25. The ants are a people not strong.] A feeble folk, but notable for their forecast. See Pro 6:6-7. Let us be so, but specially in spirituals.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv25–28People; which title is oft given to the unreasonable…
People; which title is oft given to the unreasonable creatures, both in Scripture, as Joe 1:6; 2:2, and in Homer, and Virgil, and divers other authors.
They prepare their meat in the summer; of which See Poole "Pro 30:6", See Poole "Pro 30:7", See Poole "Pro 30:8".
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv25–28The ants are a people not strong,.... Far from…
The ants are a people not strong,.... Far from it; what is weaker than an ant? a multitude of them may be destroyed at once, with the crush of a foot. Pliny calls it "minimum animal", the least animal; and the Arabians use it as a proverb, to call a weak man one weaker than an ant: and there is one sort of ants called "dsar", so small that one hundred of them will not weigh more than a barley corn (g): they are called a people, because they associate together in great numbers; though small in bulk, and weak as to power and strength; and which is a figure elsewhere used in the sacred Scriptures; see Joe 1:6; and by profane writers, as Homer and Virgil, who speak of bees as a people and nation (h); and of nations of flies, and of flying birds, geese, cranes, and swans (i);
yet their prepare their meat in the summer; build granaries with great art and wisdom, carry in grains of corn with great labour and industry, in the summer season, when only to be got, and lay them up against winter. Phocylides (k) the poet says much the same things of them; he calls them a tribe or nation, small but laborious, and says, they gather and carry in their food in summer for the winter, which is a proof of their wisdom. Cicero (l) says, the ant has not only sense, but mind, reason, and memory. Aelianus (m) ascribes unspeakable wisdom to it; and Pliny (n) discourse and conversation; See Gill on Pro 6:6; see Gill on Pro 6:7; See Gill on Pro 6:8. It is a pattern of industry and diligence both as to temporal and spiritual things, Ecc 9:10.
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(g) Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 22. col. 598. (h) Iliad. 2. v. 87. "Et populos et proelia dicam", Georgic. l. 4. v. 4, 5. (i) Iliad. 2. v. 459, 469. & 15. v. 690, 691. (k) Poem. Admon. v. 158, 159. (l) De Natura Deorum, l. 3. (m) De Animal. l. 16. c. 15. (n) Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 30.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv27–28Bands - Several companies, in exact order.
Bands - Several companies, in exact order.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv25–28See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people”…
See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people” applied here to ants, as to locusts in Joe 1:6. The marvel lies in their collective, and, as it were, organized action.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv25, 27, 28
CHAPTER XXX.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv26, 28conies--mountain mice, or rabbits.
conies--mountain mice, or rabbits.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv25–2825. the ants] See Pro_6:6-8 notes.
25. the ants] See Pro_6:6-8 notes.
a people] Comp. Joe_1:6, where the locusts are called a “nation.” So we have in Homer, ἔθνεα χηνῶν, μελισσάων, χοίρων, flocks of geese, swarms of bees, herds of pigs; and in Virgil, gentes equorum, droves of horses; lit. in each case “nations.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv26, 28(26) The conies are but a feeble folk, being…
(26) The conies are but a feeble folk, being only about as big as a rabbit, with nails instead of claws, and weak teeth. Its Hebrew name (shâphân) signifies a “hider,” from its habit of living in clefts of the rocks; its scientific name is Hyrax Syriacus. The translation “coney,” i.e., rabbit, is a mistake. In general appearance it resembles a guinea-pig or marmot.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv25–28The ants are a people not strong. The ant…
The ants are a people not strong. The ant is proposed as an example to the sluggard. (Pro_6:6, etc.) He calls the ants a people, am, because they live in a community, and have authorities which they obey, and their actions are regulated by certain definite laws. So Joel (in Joe_1:6) calls the locusts a nation, and Homer ("Iliad," 2:87) speaks of eynea melissawn adinawn , "the tribes of thronging bees." Yet they prepare their meat in the summer. In countries where ants hybernate the object of this commended foresight is mistaken; but the statement, as that Pro_6:6-8, is in accordance with the popular belief of the day, and serves well to point the moral intended. We know certainly that in Europe these insects fill their nests with heterogeneous articles grain, seeds, husks, etc., not as stores to be consumed in the winter, but for warmth and comfort"s sake. Scripture is not intended to teach science; it speaks of such matters phenomenally, with no attempt at a precision which would not have been understood or appreciated by contemporaries. But in the present case more careful observation has confirmed the correctness of the assertions in our proverbs. In countries where, ants do not hybernate, they do make granaries for themselves in the summer, and use these supplies as food in the winter months. (see note on Pro_6:8)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v27a small reptile that has four legs, a long,…
lizard
a small reptile that has four legs, a long, slender body, and a tail
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v28 If man be not able to compass these common…
If man be not able to compass these common things by his wisdom, we cannot attribute wisdom to man, but folly.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv25–28 Pro 30:25 The ants [are] a people not strong,…
Pro 30:25 The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Ver. 25. The ants are a people not strong.] A feeble folk, but notable for their forecast. See Pro 6:6-7. Let us be so, but specially in spirituals.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv25–28 People; which title is oft given to the unreasonable…
People; which title is oft given to the unreasonable creatures, both in Scripture, as Joe 1:6; 2:2, and in Homer, and Virgil, and divers other authors.
They prepare their meat in the summer; of which See Poole "Pro 30:6", See Poole "Pro 30:7", See Poole "Pro 30:8".
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv25–28 The ants are a people not strong,.... Far from…
The ants are a people not strong,.... Far from it; what is weaker than an ant? a multitude of them may be destroyed at once, with the crush of a foot. Pliny calls it "minimum animal", the least animal; and the Arabians use it as a proverb, to call a weak man one weaker than an ant: and there is one sort of ants called "dsar", so small that one hundred of them will not weigh more than a barley corn (g): they are called a people, because they associate together in great numbers; though small in bulk, and weak as to power and strength; and which is a figure elsewhere used in the sacred Scriptures; see Joe 1:6; and by profane writers, as Homer and Virgil, who speak of bees as a people and nation (h); and of nations of flies, and of flying birds, geese, cranes, and swans (i);
yet their prepare their meat in the summer; build granaries with great art and wisdom, carry in grains of corn with great labour and industry, in the summer season, when only to be got, and lay them up against winter. Phocylides (k) the poet says much the same things of them; he calls them a tribe or nation, small but laborious, and says, they gather and carry in their food in summer for the winter, which is a proof of their wisdom. Cicero (l) says, the ant has not only sense, but mind, reason, and memory. Aelianus (m) ascribes unspeakable wisdom to it; and Pliny (n) discourse and conversation; See Gill on Pro 6:6; see Gill on Pro 6:7; See Gill on Pro 6:8. It is a pattern of industry and diligence both as to temporal and spiritual things, Ecc 9:10.
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(g) Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 22. col. 598. (h) Iliad. 2. v. 87. "Et populos et proelia dicam", Georgic. l. 4. v. 4, 5. (i) Iliad. 2. v. 459, 469. & 15. v. 690, 691. (k) Poem. Admon. v. 158, 159. (l) De Natura Deorum, l. 3. (m) De Animal. l. 16. c. 15. (n) Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 30.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv27–28 Bands - Several companies, in exact order.
Bands - Several companies, in exact order.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv25–28 See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people”…
See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people” applied here to ants, as to locusts in Joe 1:6. The marvel lies in their collective, and, as it were, organized action.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv25, 27, 28
CHAPTER XXX.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv26, 28 conies--mountain mice, or rabbits.
conies--mountain mice, or rabbits.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv25–28 25. the ants] See Pro_6:6-8 notes.
25. the ants] See Pro_6:6-8 notes.
a people] Comp. Joe_1:6, where the locusts are called a “nation.” So we have in Homer, ἔθνεα χηνῶν, μελισσάων, χοίρων, flocks of geese, swarms of bees, herds of pigs; and in Virgil, gentes equorum, droves of horses; lit. in each case “nations.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv26, 28 (26) The conies are but a feeble folk, being…
(26) The conies are but a feeble folk, being only about as big as a rabbit, with nails instead of claws, and weak teeth. Its Hebrew name (shâphân) signifies a “hider,” from its habit of living in clefts of the rocks; its scientific name is Hyrax Syriacus. The translation “coney,” i.e., rabbit, is a mistake. In general appearance it resembles a guinea-pig or marmot.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv25–28 The ants are a people not strong. The ant…
The ants are a people not strong. The ant is proposed as an example to the sluggard. (Pro_6:6, etc.) He calls the ants a people, am, because they live in a community, and have authorities which they obey, and their actions are regulated by certain definite laws. So Joel (in Joe_1:6) calls the locusts a nation, and Homer ("Iliad," 2:87) speaks of eynea melissawn adinawn , "the tribes of thronging bees." Yet they prepare their meat in the summer. In countries where ants hybernate the object of this commended foresight is mistaken; but the statement, as that Pro_6:6-8, is in accordance with the popular belief of the day, and serves well to point the moral intended. We know certainly that in Europe these insects fill their nests with heterogeneous articles grain, seeds, husks, etc., not as stores to be consumed in the winter, but for warmth and comfort"s sake. Scripture is not intended to teach science; it speaks of such matters phenomenally, with no attempt at a precision which would not have been understood or appreciated by contemporaries. But in the present case more careful observation has confirmed the correctness of the assertions in our proverbs. In countries where, ants do not hybernate, they do make granaries for themselves in the summer, and use these supplies as food in the winter months. (see note on Pro_6:8)
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v27 a small reptile that has four legs, a long,…
lizard
a small reptile that has four legs, a long, slender body, and a tail
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king
palace
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