Proverbs 24:31

Easy To Read Version

Weeds were growing everywhere in those fields. Worthless plants were growing on the ground. And the wall around the fields was broken and falling down.

Cross References

Job 30:7

They howl in the bushes,\par and huddle together under thorn bushes.\par

Job 31:40

If I ever did any of those bad things,\par then let thorns and weeds\par grow in my fields\par instead of wheat and barley {\cf2\super [68]} !”\par

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy person wants things, but he can never get them. But people who work hard will get the things they want.

Proverbs 19:23

A person who respects the Lord has a good life. That person is satisfied with his life and doesn’t have to worry about troubles.

Proverbs 20:4

A lazy person is too lazy to plant seeds. So, at the time of harvest he looks for food and finds nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “I can’t go \{to work\} now. There is a lion outside. It might kill me.”

Proverbs 23:21

People who drink too much and eat too much become poor. All they do is eat, drink, sleep, and soon they have nothing.

Proverbs 24:32

I looked at this and I thought about it. Then I learned a lesson from these things:

Ecclesiastes 10:18

If a person is too lazy to work,\par his house will begin to leak,\par and the roof will fall in.\par

Isaiah 5:5

Now, I will tell you what I will do to my field of grapes:\par

Isaiah 5:6

I will make my vineyard {\cf2\super [47]} an empty field.\par No person will care for the plants.\par No person will work in the field.\par Weeds and thorns will grow there.\par I will command the clouds\par not to rain on the field.”\par

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord says to the man of Judah and to Jerusalem:

Matthew 13:22

And what is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That seed is like the person that hears the teaching but lets worries about this life and love for money stop that teaching from growing. So the teaching does not make fruit {\cf2\super [184]} \{in that person’s life\}.

Matthew 13:7

Some other seed fell among thorny weeds. The weeds grew and stopped the good plants from growing.

Hebrews 6:8

But if that land grows thorns and weeds, it is worthless. That land is in danger that it will be cursed by God. And that land will be destroyed by fire.