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Proverbs 24:31

World English Bible

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
Its surface was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.

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Proverbs 24:31 in other translations

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

Proverbs 24:31 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 24:31 in context

  1. 29Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
    I will repay the man according to his work.”
  2. 30I went by the field of the sluggard,
    by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
  3. 31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
    Its surface was covered with nettles,
    and its stone wall was broken down.
  4. 32Then I saw, and considered well.
    I saw, and received instruction:
  5. 33a little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to sleep,