World English Bible
"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
“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.”
“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down. ”
“I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.”
“And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.”
“And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.”
“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.”
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.