²⁴ When a farmer plows for planting,^(A) does he plow continually?
    Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
²⁵ When he has leveled the surface,
    does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?^(B)
Does he not plant wheat in its place,^[a]
    barley^(C) in its plot,^[b]
    and spelt^(D) in its field?
²⁶ His God instructs him
    and teaches^(E) him the right way.

³⁰ I went past the field of a sluggard,^(A)
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;

¹¹ Those who work their land will have abundant food,
    but those who chase fantasies have no sense.^(A)

¹¹ The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,^(A)
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.^(B)