New American Standard Bible 2020
Proverbs 6:6
Proverbs 6:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
- New International Version (NIV)Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,
Context of Proverbs 6:6
4Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids; 5Save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise, 7Which, having no chief, Officer, or ruler, 8Prepares its food in the summer And gathers its provision in the harvest.
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:6 word by word
לֵֽךְ־אֶל־נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה דְרָכֶ֣יהָ וַחֲכָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 6:6
- Proverbs 1:17Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;
- Job 12:7“But just ask the animals, and have them teach you; And the birds of the sky, and have them tell you.
- Isaiah 1:3An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”
- Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
- Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie down, you lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep?
- Proverbs 10:26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy one to those who send him.
- Proverbs 13:4The soul of the lazy one craves and gets nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made prosperous.
- Proverbs 15:19The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, But the path of the upright is a highway.
- Proverbs 18:9He also who is lax in his work Is a brother to him who destroys.
- Proverbs 19:15Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And a lazy person will suffer hunger.
- Proverbs 20:4The lazy one does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
- Proverbs 21:25The desire of the lazy one puts him to death, For his hands refuse to work;
- Proverbs 22:13The lazy one says, “There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!”
- Proverbs 24:30I passed by the field of a lazy one, And by the vineyard of a person lacking sense,
- Proverbs 26:13A lazy one says, “There is a lion on the road! A lion is in the public square!”
- Matthew 25:26“But his master answered and said to him, ‘You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed?
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Go to the ant, thou sluggard - נמלה nemalah, the ant, is a remarkable creature for foresight, industry, and economy. At the proper seasons they collect their food - not in the summer to lay up for the winter; for they sleep during the winter, and eat not; and therefore such hoards would be to them useless; but when the food necessary for them is most plentiful, then they collect it for their consumption in the proper seasons. No insect is more laborious…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The warning against the wastefulness of the prodigal is followed by a warning as emphatic against the wastefulness of sloth. The point of comparison with the ant is not so much the foresight of the insect as its unwearied activity during the appointed season, rebuking man‘s inaction at a special crisis Proverbs 6:4. In Proverbs 30:25, the storing, provident habit of the ant is noticed.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-11Lazy people sleep instead of preparing for what they need (see also Proverbs 24:33–34). They are the opposite of self-motivated and hardworking ants. Extra sleep and more slumber sarcastically describe a lazy person’s ambition.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-86-8. The improvident sluggards usually want sureties. Hence, such are advised to industry by the ant's example.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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