חָרוּץ

You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;