Proverbs 20:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 20:4 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Matthew 25:3-10
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: …
2 Peter 1:5-11
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4)

See here the evil of slothfulness and the love of ease. 1. It keeps men from the most necessary business, from ploughing and sowing when the season is: The sluggard has ground to occupy, and has ability for it; he can plough, but he will not; some excuse or other he has to shift it off, but the true reason is that it is cold weather. Though ploughing time is not in the depth of winter, it is in th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. shall ... beg--literally, “ask” (in this sense, Psa 109:10).