Proverbs Chapter 6 verse 7 Holy Bible
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
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Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
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Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler. This statement is substantially correct, for though the most recent observations made by modern naturalists have discovered various classes of ants occupying the same ant hill, yet there appears to be a total want of that gradation and subordination in ant life which is noticeable among bees. The three terms used here, katsa, shoter, moshel, all refer to government, and correspond respectively with the modern, Arabic terms, kadi, wall, and emir (Zockler). The first refers to the judicial office, and should rather be rendered "judge," the root katsah being "to decide" (see Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 3:6, 7; Micah 3:9). The word, however, is used of a military commander in Joshua 10:24; Judges 2:6-11, and in this sense it is understood by the Vulgate, which has dux. Shoter, rendered "overseer," is literally "a scribe," and appears as the general designation for any official In Exodus 5:6, 19 the shoter is the person employed by the Egyptian taskmasters to urge on the Israelites in their forced labour; in Numbers 11:16 the shoter is one of the seventy elders; and in 1 Chronicles 23:4 he is a municipal magistrate. The meaning assigned to the word in the Authorized Version seems to be the correct one. The ant has no overseer; there is none to regulate or see that the work is done. Each ant apparently works independently of the rest, though guided by a common instinct to add to the common store. In moshel we have the highest title of dignity and power, the word signifying a lord, prince, or ruler, from mashal, "to rule."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(j). Tenth Discourse:--Against Sloth (Proverbs 6:6-11)(7) Guide.--Properly, judge (the Arabic cadi), then leader, prince.
