Proverbs 24:30
By the field of a slothful man I once passed along, and by the vineyard of a man void of sense:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
In Context
Cross References
Job 5:27Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is: hear it, and do thou note it well for thyself.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and I am also grown old: yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking for bread.
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; look on her ways, and become wise.
Proverbs 10:13On the lips of the man of understanding there is found wisdom: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of sense.
Proverbs 13:4The sluggard longeth [in] his soul, and there [cometh] nothing; but the soul of the diligent will be abundantly gratified.
Ecclesiastes 7:15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is many a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is many a wicked man that liveth long in his wickedness.—
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:29-30
28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. We are here forbidden to be in any thing injurious to our neighbour, particularly in and by the forms of law, either, 1. As a witness: "Never bear a testimony against any man without cause, unless what thou sayest thou knowest to be punctually true and thou hast a clear call to testify it. Never bear a false testimony against… Read the whole commentary →