After the description
of the ant, Prov. vi.
6–8, there follows in
the Septuagint a similar reference to the bee: “Or go to
the bee, and learn how industrious she is, and how comely she makes her
work, and the produce of her labours kings and commons adopt for
health, and she is desired and esteemed by all, and though feeble in
strength has been exalted by her regard for wisdom.” The
interpolation is supposed to be of Greek origin, as containing
“idiomatic Greek expressions which would not occur to a
translator from the Hebrew” (Delitzsch).