Proverbs 24:31 Cross References - Thomson

³¹ if thou lettest them alone, they will be overrun with weeds and grass, and become useless, and their stone fences will be thrown down.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, "Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat, the ground is cursed by thy labours. With sorrows thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life. ¹⁸ Thorns and thistles it shall cause to spring up for thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. ¹⁹ By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."

⁴⁰ let nettles spring up for me instead of wheat, and bramble bushes instead of barley.

²³ The fear of the Lord conduceth to a man's life: but he who is fearless will lodge in places where knowledge doth not watch.

⁴ Though a sluggard is reproached he is not ashamed: and the same is the case with him who borroweth corn in harvest.

¹³ A slothful man maketh excuse and saith, There is a lion in the highways and murderers in the streets.

²¹ For every one addicted to revelling and stews shall come to beggary: and every one given to sleep shall be clothed with rags and tatters.

¹⁸ By slothfulness the roof will fall, and by idleness of hands a house will become leaky,

⁵ now therefore I will tell you, what I purpose to do with my vineyard; I take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be exposed to plunder; and I will demolish its wall, and it shall be for a common walk;

³ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up for yourselves fallow grounds and sow not among thorns:

⁷ and some fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choaked them.

²² And that sown among thorns denoteth him, who heareth the word, but worldly care and the delusion of riches choak the word and it becometh unfruitful.

⁸ but that which produceth briars and thorns is rejected, and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.