Proverbs 6:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:5 : 5 He 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.
  • Prov 30:25 : 25 The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;
  • 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.

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  • Prov 31:13-19
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    13She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.

    14She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

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

    16After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.

    17She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.

    18She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

    19She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.

  • Prov 6:5-7
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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,

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  • Prov 30:25
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    25The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Mark 4:28
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    28The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

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

    28They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

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    7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Matt 6:26
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    26See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

  • Prov 31:31
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    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

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    26The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

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    5And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

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    6In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

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    20And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

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    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

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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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    6It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

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    37And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

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    15The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.

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    16And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

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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.

  • Exod 23:10
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    10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

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    23And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

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    9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

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