24 (NIV) When a farmer
plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep
on breaking up and harrowing the soil? 25 When he has
leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter
cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley
in its plot, and spelt in its field? 26 His God instructs him and
teaches him the right way. 27 Caraway is not threshed
with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick. 28
Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go
on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of
his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it. 29 All
this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in
counsel and magnificent in wisdom.