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Proverbs 20:4
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The slacker does not plow during planting season;at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
The lazy one does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
Lazy farmers don't plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.
The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives; So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The slouthfull will not plowe, because of winter: therefore shal he beg in sommer, but haue nothing.
The sluggard does not plow from winter on,So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest.
A lazy person won't plow in winter; so at harvest-time, when he looks, there is nothing.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Some people are too lazy to plant seeds. So at harvest time, they look for food and find nothing.
The lazy man is reproached and he will not cease from talking; therefore he shall beg during harvest but will not receive even water.
A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.
The lazy man will not plow, after autumn he begs at harvest, and nothing is there.
A slouthfull body wyl not go to plowe for colde, therfore shal he go abegginge in Sommer, and haue nothinge.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he begge in haruest, and haue nothing.
A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
A slow man nolde ere for coold; therfor he schal begge in somer, and me schal not yyue to hym.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.
The lazy man will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
The lazy man does not plow before winter. So he begs during gathering time and has nothing.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
By reason of the autumn, a sluggard will not plough, therefore shall he beg in harvest, and there be nothing.
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
A farmer too lazy to plant in the spring has nothing to harvest in the fall.
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sluggard: Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 19:24, Proverbs 26:13-16
cold: or, winter
therefore: Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 6:11, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 24:34, Matthew 25:3-10, Matthew 25:24-28, 2 Peter 1:5-11
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:27 - and they found none Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 21:25 - General Proverbs 24:31 - and the Ecclesiastes 4:5 - fool Ecclesiastes 10:18 - General Ecclesiastes 11:4 - General Luke 16:3 - to beg 2 Thessalonians 3:10 - that
Cross-References
Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen:
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren.
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.
Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth?
And Dauid sayde vnto God: Is it not I that commaunded the people to be numbred? It is I that haue sinned and done euyll in deede: and what haue these sheepe done? Let thyne hande O Lorde my God be on me, and on my fathers house: but not on thy people, that they shoulde be punished.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold,.... Or, "in the cold"; in the time of cold, as Aben Ezra; in the time of autumn, which is the time of ploughing, when it begins to be cold weather, and winter is drawing on: and this is discouraging to the sluggard, who does not care to take his hands out of his bosom to feed himself, and much less to plough; see Proverbs 19:24;
[therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing; he shall ask of those who have ploughed and sowed, and are now reaping and gathering in their increase at harvest time; but they shall give him nothing; for such as will not work should not eat; and if a man will not plough and sow, he cannot expect to reap, nor should he be encouraged in begging. This holds good in spiritual things; such who have been slothful and sluggish about their spiritual affairs, unconcerned for the grace of God, and indolent in the use of means, or performance of duty, will ask when too late, or of wrong persons, and shall not have it; as the foolish virgins ask oil of the wise, when the bridegroom is come; and the rich man for water from Abraham, when in hell, Matthew 25:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind blows commonly from the North.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:4. The sluggard will not plough — For other parts of this character, see the preceding chapter. It is seldom that there is a season of very cold weather in Palestine; very cold days sometimes occur, with wind, rain, and sleet. They begin their ploughing in the latter end of September, and sow their early wheat by the middle of October. And this is often the case in England itself. The meaning of the proverb is: the slothful man, under the pretence of unfavourable weather, neglects cultivating his land till the proper time is elapsed.
