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In seedtime sluggards do not plow;
    when they look for the harvest, it is not there.

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A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

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The lazy person does not plow in season;
    harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

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The [a](A)lazy one does not plow after the autumn,
So he [b]begs during the harvest and has nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:4 Lit idle
  2. Proverbs 20:4 Lit asks

Sluggards(A) do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.(B)

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