Proverbs 6:7
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
BSB
ASV
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
KJV
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Which, having no guide, etc. If such a small animal, lacking a leader and devoid of reason, foresees things for itself by nature as its guide for the future, much more so should you, created in the image of God, called to see His glory, …
He is to take him to school himself, for, if the scholar will take no pains, the master must take the more; the sluggard is not willing to come to school to him (dreaming scholars will never love wakeful teachers) and therefore he has found him out another school, as low as he can desire. The master he is sent to school to: Go to the ant, to the bee, so the LXX.
The words express the wonder with which the Hebrew observer looked on the phenomena of insect life. “Guide,” better captain, as in Jos 10:24. The Septuagint introduces here a corresponding reference to the industry of the bee.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 38:39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
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The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
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Proverbs 30:27the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
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For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.