Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the 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.
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 sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
Cross References
Genesis 3:17-19
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 31:40
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.