Proverbs 20:4
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Autumn Beg Begs Cold Finds Food Grain-Cutting Harvest Hater Looks Plough Plougheth Ploughing Plow Reason Requesting Season Seek Slothful Sluggard Time Winter Work
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Autumn Beg Begs Cold Finds Food Grain-Cutting Harvest Hater Looks Plough Plougheth Ploughing Plow Reason Requesting Season Seek Slothful Sluggard Time Winter Work
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English Standard Version
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

New American Standard Bible
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.

King James Bible
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

International Standard Version
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.

NET Bible
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A lazy man is reproached and does not keep silent; he begs in harvest and there is no water.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.

King James 2000 Bible
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

American King James Version
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

American Standard Version
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Darby Bible Translation
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

English Revised Version
The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

World English Bible
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Young's Literal Translation
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
Lexicon
The sluggard
`atsel  (aw-tsale')
indolent -- slothful, sluggard.
will not plow
charash  (khaw-rash')
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material)
by reason of the cold
choreph  (kho'-ref)
the crop gathered, i.e. (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively, ripeness of age -- cold, winter (-house), youth.
therefore shall he beg
sha'al  (shaw-al')
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand

sha'al  (shaw-al')
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
in harvest
qatsiyr  (kaw-tseer')
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage) -- bough, branch, harvest (man).
and have nothing
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