Proverbs 24:31

Revised Standard Version

and lo, 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 soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man 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 waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 4:3

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

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Matthew 13:7

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

Hebrews 6:8

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned.