8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
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…
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