Proverbs 24:31

Proverbs chapter 24 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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World English Bible · 2000

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

King James Version · 1611

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

American Standard Version · 1901

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

v.30I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

v.31This passage

v.32Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 19:23
The fear of Jehovahtendethto life; And hethat hath itshall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.
Isaiah 5:5
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.