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Proverbs 24:31

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And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

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Proverbs 24:31 in other translations

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

Proverbs 24:31 in context

  1. 29Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
  2. 30I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
  3. 31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
  4. 32Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:
  5. 33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;