Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
Your princes are like the locusts, and your officials like the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges on the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
Hedge » Of thorns
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
Laziness » Lazy people
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be put to forced labor.
The slothful man says, There is a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. read more.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall your poverty come like a robber; and your want like an armed man.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall your poverty come like a robber; and your want like an armed man.
He becomes poor who has a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.
The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor. He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
The slothful man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. As the door turns upon its hinges, so does the slothful upon his bed. The slothful hides his hand in his dish; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth. read more.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that can answer reasonably.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that can answer reasonably.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: 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 went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed completely over Jordan.