Proverbs 24:30
28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
31 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:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
- KJV
- I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
- WEB
- I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
- ASV
- I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
- DARBY
- I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;
- BLB
- Near the field of a lazy man I passed by, and near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.
- ÅB
- Jeg kom gående forbi en lat manns mark, et uforstandig menneskes vingård,
- OTB
- Jeg gikk forbi en lat manns åker, ved vingården til en som mangler forstand;
- B1930
- Jeg kom gående forbi en lat manns mark, et uforstandig menneskes vingård,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 12:11
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
Read in contextProverbs 6:6–19
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:9–11
All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
Read in contextJob 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Read in contextProverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.
Read in contextProverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 4:1–8
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Read in contextPsalms 37:25
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
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