²⁰ Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

²⁴ Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

²⁵ When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?

²⁶ For his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him.

⁶ Don't stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.

⁹ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard, By the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

¹¹ He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

¹¹ The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

³⁰ You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

⁶ What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.

²⁹ and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

² Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

²³ Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

⁷ What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?