Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down.
New American Standard Bible
Its surface was covered with
And its stone
King James Version
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Holman Bible
weeds covered the ground,
and the stone wall was ruined.
International Standard Version
There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.
A Conservative Version
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down.
American Standard Version
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Amplified
And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns,
And nettles were covering its surface,
And its stone wall was broken down.
Bible in Basic English
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
Darby Translation
and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
Julia Smith Translation
And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.
King James 2000
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and behold, it was overgrown--all of it was covered [with] thorns, its surface with nettles, and {its stone wall} was broken down.
Modern King James verseion
and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
NET Bible
I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
The Emphasized Bible
And lo! there had come up all over it - thorns, there had covered the face thereof - thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down.
Webster
And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
World English Bible
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Youngs Literal Translation
And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.
Themes
Idleness and sloth » Lead to » Ruin
Idleness and sloth » Effects of, afford instruction to others
Industry » The slothful devoid of
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
Understanding » Those that are void of understanding
Vineyards » Frequently walled or fenced with hedges
Interlinear
`alah
Kacah
Paniym
'eben
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Sayings Of The Wise
30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man. 31 And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down. 32 This I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and took it for a warning.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17-19
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:
Job 31:40
then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD preserveth the life; yea it giveth plenteousness, without the visitation of any plague.
Proverbs 20:4
A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."
Proverbs 23:21
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.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.
Isaiah 5:5
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.
Matthew 13:7
Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked it.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns, is he that heareth the word of God, but the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and so is he made unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.