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Proverbs 24:31
Proverbs 24:31 is verse 31 of Proverbs chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
King James Version
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
World English Bible
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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Proverbs 24:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
31 Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
32 I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
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.
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.