4 The 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 slacker עָצֵ֣ל H6102 Adjective - masculine singular does not לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle plow יַחֲרֹ֑שׁ H2790 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular in season מֵ֭חֹרֶף H2779 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular at harvest time בַּקָּצִ֣יר H7105 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular he looks יִשְׁאַל H7592 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular but nothing is there וָאָֽיִן׃ H369 Conjunctive waw | Adverb