THEOSISProverbs 24:31Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 10:18By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.
- Jer 4:3For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:
- Isa 5:5And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
- Prov 23:21Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
- Matt 13:22And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
- Prov 19:23The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.
- Heb 6:8But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.
- Gen 3:17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.