Proverbs 24:31

God's Word

I saw that it was all overgrown with thistles. The ground was covered with weeds, and its stone fence was torn down.

Cross References

Job 30:7

They howl in bushes and huddle together under thornbushes.

Job 31:40

⌞then⌟ let it grow thistles instead of wheat, and foul-smelling weeds instead of barley.” This is the end of Job’s words.

Proverbs 13:4

A lazy person craves food and there is none, but the appetite of hard-working people is satisfied.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life, and such a person will rest easy without suffering harm.

Proverbs 20:4

A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

A lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be murdered in the streets!”

Proverbs 23:21

because both a drunk and a glutton will become poor. Drowsiness will dress a person in rags.

Proverbs 24:32

When I observed ⌞this⌟, I took it to heart. I saw it and learned my lesson.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

A roof sags because of laziness. A house leaks because of idle hands.

Isaiah 5:5

Now then, let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will tear away its hedge so that it can be devoured and tear down its wall so that it can be trampled.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland. It will never be pruned or hoed. Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed fields, and don’t plant among thorns.

Matthew 13:22

The seed planted among thornbushes ⌞is another person who⌟ hears the word. But the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of riches choke the word so that it can’t produce anything.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds were planted among thornbushes, and the thornbushes grew up and choked them.

Hebrews 6:8

However, if the earth produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.