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Proverbs 20:4

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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

Proverbs 20:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Proverbs 20:4

Theological / Devotional

The cold. Literally, "autumn." The statement does not imply that the sluggard fears the cold, but that he dislikes work. While eating what his farm has produced, he has not the pressure of hunger to make him take the trouble to plow and sow for the next harvest. As an inevitable consequence, the next autumn finds him seeking to share the prosperity of the wise and the diligent.

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