Proverbs 24:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.”
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“Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And lo, it hath gone up--all of it--thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 24:31 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Proverbs 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- Proverbs 19:23The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
- Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
- Proverbs 22:13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
- Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- Ecclesiastes 10:18Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
- Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Jeremiah 4:3For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- Matthew 13:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
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