A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.(A)

Honor belongs to the person who ends a dispute,(B)
but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.(C)

The slacker does not plow during planting season;[a]
at harvest time he looks,[b] and there is nothing.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:4 Lit plow in winter
  2. 20:4 Lit inquires

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