Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hedge » Of thorns
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
Laziness » Lazy people
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful hand shall be under tribute.
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.
I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding; and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction: read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest! So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest! So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work: He coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets! As the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed. The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish: it wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth. read more.
A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that answer discreetly.
A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that answer discreetly.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
And thou, lift thy staff, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
For the horse of Pharaoh, with his chariots and with his horsemen, came into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; and the children of Israel went on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan. And all Israel went over on dry ground, until all the nation had completely gone over the Jordan.