💡WEB · Proverbs 6:8

What does Proverbs 6:8 mean?

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

— Proverbs 6:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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

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

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which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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

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

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

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so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

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