Proverbs 6:8
yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 10:5 : 5 The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.
- Prov 30:25 : 25 ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
- 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.
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- Prov 6:9-102 verses76%
9How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
- Prov 31:13-197 verses75%
13She sought out wool and flax, then worked happily with her hands.
14She was like the merchant ships; she would bring in her food from afar.
15Then she rose while it was still night, and provided food for her household and a portion to her female servants.
16She considered a field and bought it; from her own income she planted a vineyard.
17She clothed herself in might, and she strengthened her arms.
18She perceived that her merchandise was good. Her lamp would not go out in the night.
19She extended her hands to the spool, and her hands grasped the spindle.
- Prov 6:5-73 verses75%
5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
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5The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.
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25ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
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27Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
- Job 24:5-62 verses73%
5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
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4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
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28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
- Ps 104:27-282 verses71%
27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.
28You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
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7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
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26Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?
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31Give her credit for what she has accomplished, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
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26A laborer’s appetite has labored for him, for his hunger has pressed him to work.
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5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.
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6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.
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20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’
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7All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach– yet his appetite is never satisfied!
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15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
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26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
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27The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.
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3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,
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6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.
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37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.
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15Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.
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16“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.
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41Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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27Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
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10Sabbaths and Feasts“For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.
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9He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
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21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
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12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?
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23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.
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23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,
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23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
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9So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.
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24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!