Proverbs 24:31

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:18

By slothfulness the roof sinks in, and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down.

Hebrews 6:8

But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

Matthew 13:22

And that which was sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the care of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:7

And others fell in the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of LORD is life to a man, and he shall abide satisfied. He shall not be visited with evil.

Job 31:40

let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job 30:7

Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.

Proverbs 24:32

Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.