Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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