Proverbs 24:30 Cross References - NSB

³⁰ I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding.

⁸ »When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

²⁷ »We have studied all of this thoroughly! This is the way it is. Listen to it, and learn it for yourself.«

¹⁷ »Listen to me and I will explain to you what I have seen.

²⁵ I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

⁴² The righteous will see this and rejoice, but all the wicked will shut their mouths.

⁶ Go to the ant, you lazy person. Consider her ways and be wise! ⁷ The lowly ant has no guide or overseer. ⁸ It prepares its food in the summer and gathers food at the harvest. ⁹ How long will you sleep, O lazy person? When will you arise from your sleep? ¹⁰ »A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest. ¹¹ Your poverty comes like a traveler. Your need comes like an armed man. ¹² An ungodly person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. ¹³ He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers. ¹⁴ Fraud is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord. ¹⁵ His disaster will come suddenly. Suddenly he is broken beyond repair. ¹⁶ Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness, ¹⁹ A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself.

¹³ Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.

¹¹ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows worthless people lacks sense.

¹ I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them. ² I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive. ³ Better off then both of them is the one who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ⁴ I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind. ⁵ They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death. ⁶ One hand full of quietness is better than two hands full of trouble and striving after wind. ⁷ Then I came back and saw vanity under the sun. ⁸ There is a man who is by himself, without a companion. He is without son or brother. There is no end to all his work. He never has enough wealth. Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. He never asks: »For whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure?« This too is vanity and a terrible problem.

¹⁵ I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.

⁹ I have seen all this and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time when one man rules over another to his own misery and harm. ¹⁰ I saw the wicked buried, those who had come and gone out of the holy place. They were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. ¹¹ Sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly. Therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully committed to do evil.