You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: