Proverbs 6:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!–[Job 12:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

Common English Bible

⁶ Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Proverbs 6:6 Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:

Proverbs 10:26

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

Proverbs 10:4

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is as an hedge of thorns: But the path of the upright is made an highway.

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 20:4

The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the slothful killeth him; For his hands refuse to labour.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thine heart in the way.

Proverbs 30:24

There be four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise:

Proverbs 30:25

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

Proverbs 6:9

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

Matthew 25:26

But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;

Matthew 6:26

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?

Romans 12:11

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Hebrews 6:12

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.