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

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

Counsel in a person’s heart is deep water;(D)
but a person of understanding draws it out.

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Footnotes

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

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