Proverbs 24:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Proverbs 24:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Second Division, Proverbs 24:23-34 . This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying i...
Proverbs 24:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 808 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD Proverbs 24:30-34 . I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,...
Proverbs 24:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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.
Proverbs 24:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Grown over with thorns— We know very few of the thorns which are mentioned in Scripture. The ononis spinosa, or rest-harrow, that most pernicious and prickly plant, covers whole fields and pl...
Proverbs 24:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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. Lo, it was all grown over (literally, it ascended) with thorn...
Proverbs 24:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
Proverbs 24:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Proverbs 24:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Proverbs 24:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I w...
Proverbs 24:31 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE FIELD OF THE SLUGGARD ‘I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and, Io, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face t...
Proverbs 24:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns ,.... Or "thistles" y; which grow up of themselves, are the fruit of the curse, and the effect of slothfulness; [and] nettles had covered the face thereo...
Proverbs 24:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Ver. 31. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. ] So is the...
Proverbs 24:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I went by the field of the slothful For the counsel intended to be conveyed by this paragraph, see note on Proverbs 6:6-11 . I looked upon it and received instruction I learned wisdom by his fol...
Proverbs 24:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and...
Proverbs 24:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Proverbs 24:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 24:30-34 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD I. We have here a precious possession in the hands of an unworthy proprietor . A vineyard is not a heritage of litt...
Proverbs 24:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 24:30-32 I. The scene shows that if we will not have flowers and fruits, we shall certainly have thorns and nettles. II. The scene shows that the sluggard and the fool cannot hide the re...
Proverbs 24:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
Proverbs 24:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

I went by the field of the slothful. The moral sluggard Take these words as a pointed reproof of the negligent and immoral head of a family. The cause of prevailing irreligion is the deplorable...
Proverbs 24:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
Proverbs 24:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 31. and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, the entire field, for want of cultivation, had produced noxious weeds, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was b...
Proverbs 24:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 10:18 ; Genesis 3:17-19 ; Hebrews 6:8 ; Jeremiah 4:3 ; Job 31:40 ; Matthew 13:22 ; Matthew 13:7 ; Proverbs 19:23 ; Proverbs 20:4 ; Proverbs 22:13 ; Proverbs 23:21

Proverbs 24:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Proverbs 24:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 24:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 24:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 24:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 24:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 24:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge