Proverbs 6:7

Easy-to-Read Version

Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader.

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;

Darby Translation
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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 You lazy people, you should watch what the ants do and learn from them. ⁷ Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader. ⁸ But in the summer, ants gather all of their food and save it. So when winter comes, there is plenty to eat. ⁹ You lazy people, how long are you going to lie there? When will you get up? ¹⁰ You say, "I need a rest. I think I'll take a short nap." ¹¹ But then you sleep and sleep and become poorer and poorer. Soon you will have nothing. It will be as if a thief came and stole everything you owned.

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
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything God commanded him.

Psalms 37:20
But evil people are the Lord 's enemies, and they will be destroyed. Their valleys will dry up and burn. They will be destroyed completely.

Proverbs 10:27
Respect for the Lord will add years to your life, but the wicked will have their lives cut short.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has a plan for everything. In his plan, the wicked will be destroyed.

Hosea 4:3
So the country is like someone crying for the dead, and all of its people are weak. Even the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the fish in the sea are dying.

Zephaniah 1:3
I will destroy all the people and all the animals. I will destroy the birds in the air and the fish in the sea. I will destroy the evil people and everything that makes them sin. I will remove all people from the earth." This is what the Lord said.

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.