²³ And Joseph saith unto the people, `Lo, I have bought you to-day and your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground,

²⁷ and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

⁴⁵ `Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

¹⁰ For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

²⁴ The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

²⁵ Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie `in' its own border?

⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

²³ Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

¹¹ Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

²⁶ Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing `is' for the head of him who is selling.

⁵ Good `is' the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

³⁶ And He causeth the hungry to dwell there, And they prepare a city of habitation.

³⁷ And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

⁶ `Because these two years the famine `is' in the heart of the land, and yet `are' five years, `in' which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,