Proverbs 24:32
When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
In Context
33If you spend a lot of time sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:11When they are executed, all the Israeli people will hear what happened, and they will become afraid, and none of them will do such an evil thing again.
Deuteronomy 32:29If you were wise, you would understand why you would be punished; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
Psalms 4:4When you people get angry, do not allow your anger to control you and cause you to sin. While you lie on your bed, silently examine what you are thinking. (Think about that!)
Luke 2:51Then he returned with them down to Nazareth. He always obeyed them. But his mother kept thinking about all those things.
1 Corinthians 10:11All those things that happened to our ancestors long ago are examples for us. Moses wrote those things to warn us who are living at this time which is near the end. We are the people for whom God has done the things that he decided to do in the previous periods of time.
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 →