Proverbs 6:8
Hebrew Bible
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe her ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, 8 yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat. 9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, 11 and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Proverbs 6:8
Septuagint
6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and be jealous when you see its ways, and grow wiser than that one; 7 for although a field does not belong to that one, and he has no one to compel him and is under no master, 8 he prepares much food for himself during summer, and in the harvest he makes provisions. 8 a Or go to the bee and learn what a worker she is and how solemn she makes her work; 8 b whose toil kings and commoners consume for health, and it is desirable to all and glorious; 8 c although she has feeble bodily strength, because she honors wisdom, she is promoted.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Proverbs 6:8 ... This section on the bee is remarkable, not only because it gives a positive evaluation of an animal which elsewhere in the Old Testament is depicted in rather negative terms (see Deuteronomy 1:44, Psalm 117:12, Isaiah 7:18), but also because it is an extensive addition to the canonical text, having no counterpart in the Hebrew ..."
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