Proverbs 30:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:6-8 : 6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: 7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

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    26The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;

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    29There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:

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    24There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:

  • Prov 6:5-8
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    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

    6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

    7Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

    8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

  • Job 24:5-6
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    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

    6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Prov 12:27
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    27He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

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    27All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

  • Prov 27:25
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    25The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

  • Prov 24:10
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    10If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

  • Prov 24:27
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    27Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Job 27:18
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    18His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • Job 39:15
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    15Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

  • Job 6:17
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    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

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    46He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

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  • Nah 3:15
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    15There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

  • Isa 30:6
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    6The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

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    8Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

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    23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

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    24Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!

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    14There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

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    3They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

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    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

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    5A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.

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    5He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

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    22A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

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    15She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

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    27It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

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    38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

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    7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

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    24And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

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    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

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    9Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.