Proverbs 24:31 “Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and t…”

Proverbs 24:31

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And lo, it hath gone up — all of it — thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

Bible in Basic English

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

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Cross references

“it”

Genesis 3:17–19 Jeremiah 4:3 Matthew 13:22 Job 31:40 Matthew 13:7 Hebrews 6:8

Genesis 3:17–19 · BSB

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 day…

Jeremiah 4:3 · BSB

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.

Matthew 13:22 · BSB

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.

Job 31:40 · BSB

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Matthew 13:7 · BSB

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

Hebrews 6:8 · BSB

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

“and the”

Ecclesiastes 10:18 Proverbs 22:13 Proverbs 19:23 Proverbs 20:4 Proverbs 23:21

Ecclesiastes 10:18 · BSB

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Proverbs 22:13 · BSB

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 19:23 · BSB

The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

Proverbs 20:4 · BSB

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Proverbs 23:21 · BSB

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Also

Isaiah 5:5

Isaiah 5:5 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

32I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

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