Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
New American Standard Bible
And gathers her provision in the harvest.
King James Version
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Holman Bible
it gathers its food during harvest.
International Standard Version
but prepares its provisions in the summer and gathers its food in the harvest.
American Standard Version
Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.
Amplified
She prepares her food in the summer
And brings in her provisions [of food for the winter] in the harvest.
Bible in Basic English
She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
Darby Translation
provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Julia Smith Translation
She will prepare in summer her bread, gathering her food in harvest.
King James 2000
Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.
Modern King James verseion
provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest.
NET Bible
yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.
New Heart English Bible
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
The Emphasized Bible
Prepareth, in the summer, her food, hath collected, in the harvest, her sustenance.
Webster
Provideth her provisions in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
World English Bible
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Youngs Literal Translation
She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:8
Prayers for Proverbs 6:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Sloth
7 Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. 9 How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?
Cross References
Proverbs 10:5
He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.
Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer,
1 Timothy 6:19
storing up for themselves a good foundation for that which is coming, so that they may take hold of the eternal life.