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Contemplate the Ant, You Sluggard[a]

Contemplate the ant, you sluggard;[b]
    observe its ways and gain wisdom.
Even though it has no chief,
    no governor or ruler,
it stores its provisions throughout the summer
    and gathers its food at the time of harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:6 Before the French writer La Fontaine, Job too was entranced by the life of animals. Here the ant becomes a teacher of virtue.
  2. Proverbs 6:6 Sluggard: an idler who refuses to work (see Prov 10:26; 13:4; 15:19; 19:24; 20:4; 22:13; 24:30; 26:13-16).