Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:
Thy lords are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the multitude of grasshoppers: which when they be cold, remain in the hedges: but when the Sun is up, they flee away, and no man can tell where they are become.
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.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
Hedge » Of thorns
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
Laziness » Lazy people
A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.
The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.
Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
A diligent hand shall bear rule; but the idle shall be under tribute.
The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
Whoso is slothful and slack in his labor, is the brother of him that is a waster.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man. And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down. This I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and took it for a warning. read more.
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little; so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little; so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.
An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich. Whoso gathereth in summer is wise; but he that is sluggish in harvest, bringeth himself to confusion.
The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour. He coveteth and desireth all the day long; but the righteous is always giving and keepeth nothing back.
The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets." Like as the door turneth about upon the threshold, even so doth the slothful welter himself in his bed. The slothful body thrusteth his hand into his bosom, and it grieveth him to put it again to his mouth. read more.
The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.
The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it asunder, that the children of Israel may go on dry ground through the midst thereof.
and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.
For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land through the midst of the sea.
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood still upon dry land, until all the people were clean over Jordan.
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, even he that maketh a way in the sea, and a footpath in the mighty waters;