Proverbs 24:31 Cross References - NSB

³¹ It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down.

¹⁷ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.«

⁴⁰ let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.« The words of Job are ended, JOB QUITE TALKING.

²³ Respect for Jehovah leads to life. He who has it will be satisfied. He will not be visited by evil.

⁴ The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.

¹³ The lazy man says: »There is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets.«

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

¹⁸ By indolence the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house collapses.

⁵ »Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

³ Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: »Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.

⁷ »Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

²² »He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

⁸ That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.