Proverbs 24:31
29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
32 I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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- ÅB
- og se, den var helt overgrodd med tistler; nesler skjulte dens bunn, og stengjerdet om den var revet ned.
- OTB
- og den var gjengrodd med torner, bakken var dekket med ugress, og steinmuren var i ruiner.
- B1930
- og se, den var helt overgrodd med tistler; nesler skjulte dens bunn, og stengjerdet om den var revet ned.
- BSB
- Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
- KJV
- And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
- WEB
- Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
- ASV
- And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
- DARBY
- and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
- BLB
- And behold, thorns had come up all over it; its face was covered with nettles, and the wall of its stones was torn down.
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Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Les i sammenhengEcclesiastes 10:18
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 3:17–19
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Les i sammenhengJeremiah 4:3
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
Les i sammenhengProverbs 22:13
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
Les i sammenhengMatthew 13:22
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Les i sammenhengProverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Les i sammenhengMatthew 13:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
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