4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:4
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 4
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The slackerעָצֵ֣לH6102Adjective - masculine singulardoes notלֹא־H3808Adverb - Negative particleplowיַחֲרֹ֑שׁH2790Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularin seasonמֵ֭חֹרֶףH2779Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singularat harvest timeבַּקָּצִ֣ירH7105Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singularhe looksיִשְׁאַלH7592Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singularbut nothing is thereוָאָֽיִן׃H369Conjunctive waw | Adverb