Proverbs 24:31
If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; + 24:31 Gr. grass. and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
30A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard.
32Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat—of that you have eaten, cursed is the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
Proverbs 13:4Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.
Proverbs 20:4A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
Proverbs 23:21for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
Isaiah 5:5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down.
Jeremiah 4:3For thus says the Lord to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among 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 →