Proverbs 24:30 Cross References - Rotherham

³⁰ By the field of the sluggard, I passed, and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense;

⁸ So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

²⁷ Lo! as for this, we have searched it out––so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.

¹⁷ I will tell thee––hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

²⁵ Young, have I been, moreover am old,––Yet have I not seen, A righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread:

⁴² The upright seeth and is glad, And, all perverseness, hath closed her mouth.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard, observe her ways, and be wise; ⁷ Which, having no harvest, scribe, or ruler, ⁸ Prepareth, in the summer, her food, hath collected, in the harvest, her sustenance. ⁹ How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? how long ere thou rise from thy sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest:–– ¹¹ So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.
¹² An abandoned man, a man of iniquity, [is he] who––goeth on in perversity of mouth; ¹³ Winketh with his eyes, speaketh with his foot, pointeth with his fingers; ¹⁴ [Hath] perverse things in his heart, deviseth mischief on every occasion, strifes, he sendeth forth. ¹⁵ For this cause, suddenly cometh his doom, in a moment, shall he be torn in pieces and there be no mending. ¹⁶ These six things, doth Yahweh hate, yea, seven, are the abomination of his soul:–– ¹⁷ Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood; ¹⁸ A heart contriving iniquitous devices, feet hasting to run into mischief; ¹⁹ One that uttereth lies––a false witness, and one sending forth strifes between brethren.

³² He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it;

¹³ In the lips of the intelligent, is found wisdom, but, a rod, is for the back of him that lacketh sense.

¹¹ He that tilleth his land, shall be filled with food, but, he that runneth after worthless men, lacketh sense.

¹ Then again, I, considered all the oppressive deeds which were done under the sun,––and lo! the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter, and, on the side of their oppressing, is power, and they have no comforter. ² So, I, pronounced happy the dead, who were, already, dead,––more than the living, who were living, still; ³ and, as better than both, him who had not yet come into being,––who had not seen the vexatious work, which was done under the sun.
⁴ Then saw, I, all the toil and all the skill of the work, that, for this, a man was envied of his neighbour,––even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind. ⁵ The dullard, claspeth his hands, and consumeth his own flesh. ⁶ Better a handful––with quietness,––than both hands, full––with toil, and feeding on wind.
⁷ Then again, I, looked at a vain thing under the sun:–– ⁸ Here is one, without a second, even son or brother, he hath none, yet is there no end to all his toil, even his eye, is not satisfied with riches,––neither [saith he] For whom, am I toiling, and letting my soul want good? Even this, was vanity, yea a vexatious employment, it was!

¹⁵ Everything, had I seen, in my days of vanity,––Here was a righteous man, perishing in his righteousness, and there was a lawless man, continuing long in his wickedness.

⁹ All this, had I seen, and tried to apply my heart to every work which was done under the sun,––at such time as one man had power over another man, to his hurt. ¹⁰ And, thereupon, I considered the lawless when buried, when they had entered, [their graves], that, from the place of the Holy One, they used to go and boast in the city that they had so done,––even this, was vanity. ¹¹ Because sentence against a wicked work is not executed speedily––on this account, the heart of the sons of men is fully set within them, to commit wickedness.