4He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Solomon had often, in this book, pressed it upon rich people to take the comfort of their riches themselves; here he presses it upon them to do good to others with them and to abound in liberality to the poor, which will, another day, abound to their account. Observe, I. How the duty itself is recommended to us, Eccl. 11:1. 1. Cast thy bread upon the waters , thy bread-corn upon the low places (so…
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