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

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in their place?

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.