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Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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 does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
The lazy don’t plow during winter; at harvest they look but find nothing.
A lazy person won’t plow in winter; so at harvest-time, when he looks, there is nothing.
If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
Some people are too lazy to plant seeds. So at harvest time, they look for food and find nothing.
A lazy farmer does not plough his fields in winter. As a result, he has nothing to eat when harvest time arrives.
A lazy person fails to plow when it is the season for planting. He expects something in the harvest, but nothing will be there.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
The sluggard does not plough in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Lazy farmers don’t plow ·when they should [L in the winter]; they ·expect [look for] a harvest, but there is none.
The slothful will not plow, because of winter: therefore shall he beg in summer, but have nothing.
A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.
A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
A lazy farmer doesn’t plow when he should. So at harvest time he has no crop.
A lazy person doesn’t plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
¶ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; 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 by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard does not plow from winter on, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.
If you won’t plow in the cold, you won’t eat at the harvest.
A farmer too lazy to plant in the spring has nothing to harvest in the fall.
The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he will beg during harvest and have nothing.
A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.
In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.
The lazy one does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
The idler does not plow in season; so at harvest-time he looks for a crop in vain.
Lazy farmers don’t plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
Anyone who refuses to work doesn’t plow in the right season. When they look for a crop at harvest time, they don’t find it.
Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
Sluggards do not plough in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
The lazy man will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
The lazy man does not plow before winter. So he begs during gathering time and has nothing.
Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
The lazy person does not plough in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The lazy person does not plough in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) will not plow by reason of choref (winter, cold); therefore shall he beg at katzir (harvest), and have nothing.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
A slacker will not plow in season, so at harvest he looks but finds nothing.
A slacker procrastinates when it is time to plow; so when it’s time for harvest, there are no crops in the field.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
A slow man would not ear for cold; therefore he shall beg in summer, and men shall not give to him. (A lazy person will not plow when it is cold; then at harvest time he shall beg, but others shall not give him anything.)
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
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