Proverbs 24:31

New International Version

thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.

Cross References

Job 30:7

They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

Job 31:40

then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.

Proverbs 20:4

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Proverbs 23:21

for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Proverbs 24:32

I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers 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: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.

Matthew 13:22

The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Matthew 13:7

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.