Proverbs 24:31

Modern English Version

and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down.

Cross References

Job 30:7

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Job 31:40

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

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will rest secure; he will not be visited by evil.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow in season; he will beg at 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 will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

Proverbs 24:32

Then I saw and considered it well in my heart; I looked on it and received instruction.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

By slothfulness the rafters cave in, and by the idleness of one’s hands the house drips.

Isaiah 5:5

So now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be consumed; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Jeremiah 4:3

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

Matthew 13:22

He also who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:7

Some seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that bears thorns and thistles is rejected and near to being cursed. Its destiny is to be burned.