Proverbs 24:31

New Century Version

Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down.

Cross References

Job 30:7

They howled like animals among the bushes and huddled together in the brush.

Job 31:40

then let thorns come up instead of wheat, and let weeds come up instead of barley.” The words of Job are finished.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy will not get what they want, but those who work hard will.

Proverbs 19:23

Those who respect the Lord will live and be satisfied, unbothered by trouble.

Proverbs 20:4

Lazy farmers don’t plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside! I might get killed out in the street!”

Proverbs 23:21

Those who drink and eat too much become poor. They sleep too much and end up wearing rags.

Proverbs 24:32

I thought about what I had seen; I learned this lesson from what I saw.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

If someone is lazy, the roof will begin to fall. If he doesn’t fix it, the house will leak.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge, and it will be burned. I will break down the stone wall, and it will be walked on.

Isaiah 5:6

I will ruin my field. It will not be trimmed or hoed, and weeds and thorns will grow there. 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 seeds among thorns.

Matthew 13:22

And what is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That seed is like the person who hears the teaching but lets worries about this life and the temptation of wealth stop that teaching from growing. So the teaching does not produce fruit in that person’s life.

Matthew 13:7

Some other seed fell among thorny weeds, which grew and choked the good plants.

Hebrews 6:8

Other people are like land that grows thorns and weeds and is worthless. It is about to be cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.