PRO 30:25 Parallel View

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ULT The ants are a people not strong,
 ⇔ but they prepare their food in the summer.

UST Although ants are weak insects,
⇔ during the right time they store their food to eat during the winter.

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OEB The ants are a feeble folk,
⇔ yet they lay up their food in the summer.

WEB The ants are not a strong people,
⇔ yet they provide their food in the summer.

NET ants are creatures with little strength,
 ⇔ but they prepare their food in the summer;

LSV The ants [are] a people not strong,
And they prepare their food in summer,

FBV Ants—they're not strong, but they work hard all summer storing up food.

T4T Ants are not strong,
⇔ but they store up food during the summer in order to have it during the winter.

LEB • are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

BBE The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

ASV The ants are a people not strong,
 ⇔ Yet they provide their food in the summer;

DRA The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:

YLT The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

DBY The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

RV The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their meat in the summer;

WBS The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

KJB The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
(The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; )

BB The emmets are but a weake people, which yet gather their meate in the sommer:
(The emmets are but a weake people, which yet gather their meat in the sommer:)

GNV The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:
(The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meat in sommer: )

CB The Emmettes are but a weake people, yet gather they their meate together in ye haruest.
(The Emmettes are but a weake people, yet gather they their meat together in ye/you_all harvest.)

WYC amtis, a feble puple, that maken redi mete in heruest to hem silf;
(amtis, a feble people, that maken ready meet in harvest to them silf;)

LUT die Ameisen, ein schwach Volk, dennoch schaffen sie im Sommer ihre Speise;
(die Ameisen, a schwach people, dennoch schaffen they/she/them in_the Sommer ihre Speise;)

CLV formicæ, populus infirmus, qui præparat in messe cibum sibi;[fn]
(formicæ, populus infirmus, who præparat in messe cibum sibi;)

30.25 Formicæ populus infirmus. Et Ecclesiæ populus, etc., usque ad quibus vivat in æternum.

30.25 Formicæ populus infirmus. And Ecclesiæ populus, etc., usque to to_whom he_lives in eternal.

BRN No BRN PRO 30:25 verse available

BrLXX No BrLXX PRO 30:25 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

עַ֣ם

people

Here, Agur refers to the whole species of ants as if they were a group of people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “are a species”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וַ⁠יָּכִ֖ינוּ בַ⁠קַּ֣יִץ לַחְמָֽ⁠ם

and,store_up in/on/at/with,summer food,their

See how you translated the similar phrase “prepares its bread in the summer” in 6:8.

Parallel PRO 30:25