8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.


In Context

5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 6:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:8yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Provideth her provisions in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.