Proverbs 24:31

In 11 translations

BSB

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

KJV

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

WEB

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

ASV

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

LSV

And behold, it has gone up—all of it—thorns! Nettles have covered its face, || And its stone wall has been broken down.

YLT

And lo, it hath gone up — all of it — thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

DBY

and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

DRC

And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

GNV

And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

JPS

And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

LXXE

If thou let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.Gr. grass.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν ἀφῇς αὐτὸν, χερσωθήσεται καὶ χορτομανήσει ὅλος, καὶ γίνεται ἐκλελειμμένος, οἱ δὲ φραγμοὶ τῶν λίθων αὐτοῦ κατασκάπτονται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
• Ecclesiastes 10:18Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
• Proverbs 22:13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
• Genesis 3:17–19And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the…
• Jeremiah 4:3For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
• Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
• Matthew 13:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
• Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
• Proverbs 19:23The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
• Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
• Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

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