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Proverbs 20:4
Compare Translations for Proverbs 20:4
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Holman Christian Standard Bible
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The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
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English Standard Version
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The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
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King James Version
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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The Message Bible
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A farmer too lazy to plant in the spring has nothing to harvest in the fall.
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New American Standard Bible
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The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
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New International Version
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Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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New King James Version
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The lazy man will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
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New Living Translation
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Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
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New Revised Standard
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The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
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American Standard Version
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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The Bible in Basic English
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The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
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Common English Bible
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The lazy don't plow during winter; at harvest they look but find nothing.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
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The lazy don't plow during winter; at harvest they look but find nothing.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
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A lazy person won't plow in winter; so at harvest-time, when he looks, there is nothing.
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The Darby Translation
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The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Good News Translation
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A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
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A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
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A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.
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Hebrew Names Version
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
therefore
he shall beg in harvest and
have
nothing.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Lexham English Bible
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The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.
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Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha
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A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
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New Century Version
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Lazy farmers don't plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.
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New International Reader's Version
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Anyone who refuses to work doesn't plow in the right season. When he looks for a crop at harvest time, he doesn't find it.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
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The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
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Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
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Revised Standard Version
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The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
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The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
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Third Millennium Bible
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing.
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The Latin Vulgate
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propter frigus piger arare noluit mendicabit ergo aestate et non dabitur ei
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
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propter frigus piger arare noluit mendicabit ergo aestate et non dabitur ei
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The Webster Bible
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
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World English Bible
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Wycliffe
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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.)
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Young's Literal Translation
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Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
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