Proverbs 6:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

Proverbs 6:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:39
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Job 39:26-30
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? …
Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Job 41:4-34
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard, I. By way of instruction, Ps. 6:6-8. He sends him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-8. The improvident sluggards usually want sureties. Hence, such are advised to industry by the ant’s example.