SEV Biblia, Chapter 30:25
Las hormigas, pueblo no fuerte, y en el verano preparan su comida;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. The ants [are] a people not strong , etc.] 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 “dsar”, so small that one hundred of them will not weigh more than a barley corn f875 : they are called a people, because they associate together in great numbers; though small in bulk, and weak as to power and strength; and which is a figure elsewhere used in the sacred Scriptures; (see Joel 1:6); and by profane writers, as Homer and Virgil, who speak of bees as a people and nation f876 ; and of nations of flies, and of flying birds, geese, cranes, and swans f877 ; yet their prepare their meat in the summer ; build granaries with great art and wisdom, carry in grains of corn with great labour and industry, in the summer season, when only to be got, and lay them up against winter. Phocylides the poet says much the same things of them; he calls them a tribe or nation, small but laborious, and says, they gather and carry in their food in summer for the winter, which is a proof of their wisdom. Cicero f879 says, the ant has not only sense, but mind, reason, and memory.
Aelianus ascribes unspeakable wisdom to it; and Pliny discourse and conversation; (see Gill on “ Proverbs 6:6-8”). It is a pattern of industry and diligence both as to temporal and spiritual things, ( Ecclesiastes 9:10 Matthew 6:19,20).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-28 - Four things that are little, are yet to be admired. There are those wh are poor in the world, and of small account, yet wise for their soul and another world.
Original Hebrew
הנמלים 5244 עם 5971 לא 3808 עז 5794 ויכינו 3559 בקיץ 7019 לחמם׃ 3899
