Proverbs 6:7

Revised Standard Version

Without having any chief, officer 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;

Darby Translation
which having 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,

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, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ⁷ Without having any chief, officer or ruler, ⁸ she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest. ⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, ¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like 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
When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Psalms 37:20
But the wicked perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish--like smoke they vanish away.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are 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.