Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 24:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
- Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
- Jeremiah 4:3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
- Matthew 13:22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
- Genesis 3:17-19 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
- Job 31:40 let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Proverbs 19:23 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
- Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Proverbs 22:13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
- Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
- Matthew 13:7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
- Hebrews 6:8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over…
Pro 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Ver. 31. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns.] So is the spiritual sluggard’s soul with lusts and sins, under the which lurketh that old serpent.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,.... The sight…
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,.... The sight of the field and vineyard of the slothful put Solomon in mind of an observation he had made before, which fitly describes the disposition and gesture of the sluggard, by which means his field and vineyard came to ruin; while he should be up and tilling his field and planting his vineyard, he is in his bed; and awaking, instead of rising, craves for and indulges himself in another little doze, and which he repeats again and again;
a little folding of the hands to sleep; which ought to have been employed another way; See Gill on Pro 6:10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. nettles] “Or, wild vetches,” R.V. marg. here and…
31. nettles] “Or, wild vetches,” R.V. marg. here and Job_30:7; Zep_2:9, where the same Heb. word occurs.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thorns. Kimmashon is the word here used, but the…
Thorns. Kimmashon is the word here used, but the plant has not been certainly identified. (comp. Isa_34:13) Nettles (charul). The stinging nettle is quite common in Palestine, but the plant here meant is probably the prickly acanthus, which quickly covers any spot left uncultivated. (Job_30:7) Revised Version margin suggests wild vetches. Ovid, "Trist.," 5:12. 21"Adde, quod ingenium louga rubigine laesum Torpet, et est multo, quam fuitante, minus. Fertilis, assiduo si non renovetur aratro, Nil, nisicum spinis gramen, habebit ager.
So spiritual writers have used this apologue as teaching a lesson concerning the soul and the life of man, how that spiritual sloth allows the growth of evil habits, and the carelessness which maintains not the defence of law and prayer, but admits the enemy, and the result is the loss of the true riches and the perishing of the heavenly life. The two verses are thus rendered, or morally applied, in the Septuagint: "A foolish man is as a farm. and a man wanting in sense is as a vineyard; if you leave him, he will be barren, and will be altogether covered with weeds, and he will become deserted, and his fences of stone are broken down."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 31. and, lo, it was all grown over…
v. 31. and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, the entire field, for want of cultivation, had produced noxious weeds, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down, another sign of utter neglect.
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