24. Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?
25. Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?
26. For he will be instructed in judgment; his God will teach him.
27. For coriander cannot be threshed with a saw, and a cartwheel cannot revolve over cumin. Instead, coriander is shaken out with a stick, and cumin with a staff.
28. But grain for bread must be crushed. Truly, the thresher cannot thresh it unceasingly, and the cartwheel can neither disrupt it, nor break it with its surface.
29. And this has gone forth from the Lord, the God of hosts, so that he may accomplish his miraculous plan and magnify justice.