Proverbs 6:7

The Darby Translation

which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without leader, administrator, or ruler,

Hebrew Names Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

King James Version
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

English Standard Version
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,

New Century Version
Ants have no commander, no leader or ruler,

New English Translation
It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,

Amplified Bible
Which, having no chief, Overseer or ruler,

New American Standard Bible
Which, having no chief, Officer, or ruler,

World English Bible
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Geneva Bible (1587)
For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,

Legacy Standard Bible
Which, having no chief,Officer or ruler,

Berean Standard Bible
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Contemporary English Version
Ants don't have leaders,

Complete Jewish Bible
It has no chief, overseer or ruler;

Easy-to-Read Version
Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader.

George Lamsa Translation
Though having no harvest and no ruler over her, neither any one to guide her,

Good News Translation

Lexham English Bible
It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

Literal Translation
who, having no guide, overseer or ruler,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder:

American Standard Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Bible in Basic English
Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

King James Version (1611)
Which hauing no guide, ouerseer, or ruler,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She hath no guyde, nor ouerseer, nor ruler,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,

English Revised Version
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which whanne he hath no duyk, nethir comaundour, nether prince;

Update Bible Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Webster's Bible Translation
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

New King James Version
Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler,

New Living Translation
Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,

New Life Bible
She has no leader, head or ruler,

New Revised Standard
Without having any chief or officer or ruler,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Which, having no harvest, scribe, or ruler,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Revised Standard Version
Without having any chief, officer or ruler,

Young's Literal Translation
Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,

Contextual Overview

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: ⁷ which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provideth her bread in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest! ¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 38:39-41, Job 39:1-12, Job 39:26-30, Job 41:4-34

Reciprocal: Habakkuk 1:14 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:4
In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

Genesis 6:20
Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.

Genesis 6:22
And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

Psalms 37:20
For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 16:4
Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Hosea 4:3
For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler. None to guide and direct her what to do; nor any to overlook her, to see that she does aright, or to oblige her to work, and keep her to it; nor any to call her to an account, and correct her for doing amiss; and nevertheless diligent and industrious, doing everything of herself, by the instinct of nature, readily and willingly: and yet how slothful are men; who, besides the dictates of nature, reason, and conscience, have parents, masters, ministers, and magistrates, to guide, direct, exhort, instruct, and enforce! so Aristotle k says of the ant, that it is

αγαρχος, without any ruler or governor.

k Hist. de Animal. l. 1. c. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words express the wonder with which the Hebrew observer looked on the phenomena of insect life. “Guide,” better captain, as in Joshua 10:24. The Septuagint introduces here a corresponding reference to the industry of the bee.