As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.
For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;