Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Verse Concepts
Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
Verse Concepts
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Verse Concepts
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Verse Concepts
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
Verse Concepts
Hedge » Of thorns
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
Laziness » Lazy people
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
Verse Concepts
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
Verse Concepts
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Verse Concepts
The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
Verse Concepts
The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
Verse Concepts
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.
Verse Concepts
I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. read more.
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth. He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work. All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
Show 1 more verse
The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. read more.
The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.
Verse Concepts
And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
Verse Concepts
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Verse Concepts
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Verse Concepts
For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.
Verse Concepts
And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.
Verse Concepts
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.
Verse Concepts
This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;
Verse Concepts