💡WEB · Proverbs 24:31
What does Proverbs 24:31 mean?
"Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down."
— Proverbs 24:31 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
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