Proverbs 24:31
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
32I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
Cross References
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.
Proverbs 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
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.
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 Henry on Proverbs 24:31-34
The Vineyard of the Slothful. 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Here is, 1. The… Read the whole commentary →