Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.
And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. [I will] remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. [I will] break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.
Hedge » Of thorns
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Laziness » Lazy people
The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.
The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.
Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.
The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor.
A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction.
I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense}; and behold, it was overgrown--all of it was covered [with] thorns, its surface with nettles, and {its stone wall} was broken down. Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches. He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.
The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work. {All day} he craves a craving, but the righteous will give and not hold back.
A lazy person says "A lion [is] in the road! A lion among the streets!" The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed. A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is [too] tired to return it to his mouth. read more.
A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.
A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it [so that] the {Israelites} can go in the middle of the sea on the dry land.
And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this [is] the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause [them] to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness {in their presence} into light and rough places into level ground. These [are] the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
When the horses of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariots and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the {Israelites} traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea.
And the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firmly on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation finished crossing the Jordan.