the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1.
Commenting on Proverbs 30:24-28
The ants are a people not strong,.... Far from it; what is weaker than an ant? a multitude of them may be destroyed at once, with the crush of a foot. Pliny calls it "minimum animal", the least animal; and the Arabians use it as a proverb, to call a weak man one weaker than an ant: and there is one sort of ants called...
Pro 30:24-28 Another proverb with the cipher 4, its first line terminating in ארץ: 24 Four are the little things of the earth, And yet they are quick of wit - wise: 25 The ants - a people not strong, And yet they prepare in summer their food; 26 Conies - a people not mighty, And yet set their dwelling on the rocks; 27 No...
Commenting on Proverbs 30:24-28