Proverbs 10:4-5

⁴רָאשׁ, עֹשֶׂה כַף־רְמִיָּה; וְיַד חָרוּצִים תַּעֲשִׁיר׃d

⁵אֹגֵר בַּקַּיִץ בֵּן מַשְׂכִּיל; נִרְדָּם בַּקָּצִיר, בֵּן מֵבִישׁ׃

Proverbs 10 marks a decisive shift in the book of Proverbs. The extended discourses of chapters 1–9 give way to a collection of individual, pithy sayings—the first of several Solomonic collections. Each verse is a self-contained unit, typically a two-line parallelism contrasting the