⁶ Sow your seed in the morning,
    and at evening let your hands not be idle,^(A)
for you do not know which will succeed,
    whether this or that,
    or whether both will do equally well.

¹² Sow^(A) righteousness^(B) for yourselves,
    reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;^(C)
    for it is time to seek^(D) the Lord,
until he comes
    and showers his righteousness^(E) on you.