Bible verse

Proverbs 6:8

it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

Proverbs 6:8 · BSB

Proverbs 6:8 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 6.

4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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

6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

7 Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

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

11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

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Proverbs 6:8 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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