Proverbs 6:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

New Living Translation
Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!

English Standard Version
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Berean Study Bible
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

New American Standard Bible
Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise,

NASB 1995
Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,

NASB 1977
Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,

Amplified Bible
Go to the ant, O lazy one; Observe her ways and be wise,

Christian Standard Bible
Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.

Contemporary English Version
You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill.

Good News Translation
Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Consider the ant, you lazy bum. Watch its ways, and become wise.

International Standard Version
Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.

NET Bible
Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

New King James Version
Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,

King James 2000 Bible
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

New Heart English Bible
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

World English Bible
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

American King James Version
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

American Standard Version
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

A Faithful Version
Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise,

Darby Bible Translation
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:

English Revised Version
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Webster's Bible Translation
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Goe to the pismire, O sluggarde: beholde her waies, and be wise.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Go to the emmet thou sluggarde, consider her wayes, and learne to be wyse:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Go to the ant, O slothful one, "" See her ways and be wise;

Young's Literal Translation
Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

Smith's Literal Translation
Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Be like the ant and see her ways and learn, for there is no harvest for her,

Lamsa Bible
Be like the ant, consider her ways, and be wise;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
















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