The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Refusing to do the necessary work of plowing and sowing leads directly to want, for the farmer who will not plow has no harvest to gather. When harvest comes he is left to beg, and he has nothing because he neglected the labor that would have produced a crop. God supplies the means for a harvest, but He does not miraculously furnish the result when people fail to use those means. What a person reaps and receives corresponds to his sowing and labor, with no reaping where there was no working.
Refusing to do the necessary work of plowing and sowing leads directly to want, for the farmer who will not plow has no harvest to gather. When harvest comes he is left to beg, and he has nothing because he neglected the labor that would have produced a crop. God supplies the means for a harvest, but He does not miraculously furnish the result when people fail to use those means. What a person reaps and receives corresponds to his sowing and labor, with no reaping where there was no working.