Proverbs 24:31

Translations

Modern

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Traditional

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Literal

And behold, thorns had come up all over it; its face was covered with nettles, and the wall of its stones was torn down.

Latin

…et ecce totum repleverant urticæ, et operuerant superficiem ejus spinæ, et maceria lapidum destructa erat.

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Notes

Proverbs 24:30–34

Saying 5: Laziness and a love for sleep can lead to poverty (see Proverbs 10:4–5, 26; 12:11; 13:4; 15:19; 18:9; 19:15, 24; 20:4, 13).

Proverbs 24:23–34

This addendum to the thirty sayings of the wise (Proverbs 22:17–24:22) includes five more sayings.

Theme notes and profiles

Laziness and Hard Work

Related verses

Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
Proverbs 22:13
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
Matthew 13:22
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Genesis 3:17–19
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Matthew 13:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Hebrews 6:8
But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
Job 31:40
…then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Proverbs 20:4
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

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Proverbs, Book of

Topics

Fence: Made of Stone Walls Idleness and Sloth: Effects of, Afford Instruction to Others Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Ruin Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning Industry: The Slothful Devoid of Instruction: Also See Instruction: from Nature Instruction: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nettles: An Obnoxious Plant Orderliness Slothfulness: General Scriptures Concerning Vineyard: Neglected Vineyards of the Slothful Man Neglected and Laid Waste Vineyards: Frequently Walled or Fenced with Hedges Walls of Vineyards Young Men: General Scriptures Concerning

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