| Proverbs 6:6 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Consider the ant, you lazy bum. Watch its ways, and become wise.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: |
| ASV: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise: |
| BBE: | Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: |
| DBY: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: |
| ERV: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: |
| JPS: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise; |
| WBS: | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: |
| WEB: | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; |
| YLT: | Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; |
| Proverbs 6:6 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Proverbs 10:26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy one to those who send him.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet answer.
Proverbs 30:24 Four things are small on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:25 The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 6:6 Go to the {b} ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
(b) If the word of God cannot instruct you, learn from the little ant to labour for yourself and not to burden others. |
| WES: | 6:6 Go - This is a distinct precept; and it is for the most part as needless to seek, as hard to find, coherence in the proverbs. |
| MHC: | 6:6-11 Diligence in business is every man's wisdom and duty; not so much that he may attain worldly wealth, as that he may not be a burden to others, or a scandal to the church. The ants are more diligent than slothful men. We may learn wisdom from the meanest insects, and be shamed by them. Habits of indolence and indulgence grow upon people. Thus life runs to waste; and poverty, though at first at a distance, gradually draws near, like a traveller; and when it arrives, is like an armed man, too strong to be resisted. All this may be applied to the concerns of our souls. How many love their sleep of sin, and their dreams of worldly happiness! Shall we not seek to awaken such? Shall we not give diligence to secure our own salvation? |
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