Proverbs 24:30

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Summary

Proverbs 24:30

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Went

General references

Proverbs 19:24

Proverbs 21:25

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Bible References

Went

Go to the ant, you lazy person. Consider her ways and be wise!

When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

We have studied all of this thoroughly! This is the way it is. Listen to it, and learn it for yourself.

Listen to me and I will explain to you what I have seen.

I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

The righteous will see this and rejoice, but all the wicked will shut their mouths.

I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them.

I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.

I have seen all this and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time when one man rules over another to his own misery and harm.

General references

A lazy man hides his hand in the dish and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

The desire of the lazy killed him for his hands refuse to work.

By indolence the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house collapses.