Proverbs 24:31
It was all overgrown with thorns, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall had fallen down.
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30I walked past the field of a lazy man, past a vineyard of someone with no sense.
32As I looked I thought about it, and what I saw taught me a lesson:
Cross References
Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
Proverbs 13:4Lazy people want a lot, but get nothing; if you work hard you'll be well rewarded.
Proverbs 20:4Slackers don't sow when they should, so when harvest comes they don't have anything.
Proverbs 23:21For people who get drunk and overeat lose all they've got, and they spend so much time dozing that all they have left to wear is rags.
Isaiah 5:5So let me tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard. I'll remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed. I'll tear down its wall, and it will be trampled underfoot.
Jeremiah 4:3This is what the Lord is saying to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed ground, and don't 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 →