Proverbs 24:31 Cross References - MSB

³¹ Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

¹⁷ And 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 days of your life. ¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

⁴⁰ then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

²³ The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

⁴ The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

¹³ The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

¹⁸ Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

⁵ Now 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.

³ For 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.

⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

²² The 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.

⁸ But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.