Proverbs 24:31
and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 31:40
let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of Jehovah tends to life, and he rests satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Proverbs 20:4
The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The lazy one says, There is a lion outside; I shall be killed in the streets.
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the building decays; and through lowering of the hands the house leaks.
Isaiah 5:5
And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;
Jeremiah 4:3
For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
Matthew 13:7
And some fell among thorns. And the thorns sprung up and choked them.
Matthew 13:22
And that sown into the thorns is this: he who hears the Word; and the anxiety of this world, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is a curse, whose end is to be burned.)