Proverbs 24:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and see, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Cross References

Job 30:7

Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

Job 31:40

let thorns grow instead of wheat and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall 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; I looked and received instruction.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 4:3

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

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Matthew 13:7

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

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.