Proverbs 6:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:8 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:5
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
1 Timothy 6:19
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

Topics

Animals Ant Beasts Cattle Children Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Diligence

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. 8)

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