Proverbs 24:31

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Summary

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

It

Hebrews 6:8

And the

Ecclesiastes 10:18

General references

Proverbs 19:24

Proverbs 21:25

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Bible References

It

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:

then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."

For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.

Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked it.

but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

And the

The fear of the LORD preserveth the life; yea it giveth plenteousness, without the visitation of any plague.

A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."

for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.

General references

A slothful body shutteth his hand into his bosom; so that he cannot put it to his mouth.

The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour.

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.