^{23 Ref} Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

^{24 Ref} Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

^{25 Ref} When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

^{26 Ref} For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.