Proverbs 24:31 Cross References - ISV

³¹ There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

¹⁷ He told the man, “Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you. You’ll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life. ¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you’ll eat the plants from the meadows. ¹⁹ You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you’re buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You’re made from dust and you’ll return to dust.”

⁴⁰ may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley.”
With this, Job’s discourse with his friends is completed.

²³ The fear of the LORD leads to life; whoever is satisfied with it will rest, untouched by evil.

⁴ A lazy person doesn’t plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.

¹³ The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!”

²¹ because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

¹⁸ Through slothfulness the roof deteriorates, and a house leaks because of idleness.

⁵ “Now, let me tell you, won’t you please, what I’m going to do to my vineyard. “I’m going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I’ll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

³ For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, “Break up your unplowed ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

⁷ Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

²² As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can’t produce a crop.

⁸ However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.