Proverbs 24:30 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 24:30

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

KJV

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I went by the field of the slothful - This is a most instructive parable; is exemplified every day in a variety of forms; and is powerfully descriptive of the state of many a blackslider and trifler in religion. Calmet has an excellent note on this passage. I shall give the substance of it. Solomon often recommends diligence and economy to his disciples. In those primitive times when agriculture was honorable, no man was respected who neglected to cultivate his grounds, who sunk into poverty, contracted debt, or engaged in ruinous securities.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2027: “The Sluggard's Farm” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1888)

NO DOUBT Solomon was sometimes glad to lay aside the robes of State, escape from the forms of court and go through the country unknown. On one occasion, when he was doing so, he looked over the broken wall of a little estate which belonged to a farmer of his country. This estate consisted of a piece of plowed land and a vineyard. One glance showed him that it was owned by a sluggard who neglected it, for the weeds had grown right plentifully and covered all the face of the ground. From this Solomon gathered instruction.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3381: “The Broken Fence” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1913)

THIS lazy man did no hurt to his fellow men—he was not a thief, nor a ruffian, nor a meddler in anybody else's business. He did not trouble himself about other men's concerns, for he did not even attend to his own—it required too much exertion. He was not grossly vicious. He had not energy enough to care for that. He was one who liked to take things easily. He always let well enough alone and, for the that matter, he let ill alone, too, as the nettles and the thistles in his garden plainly proved!

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
שְׂדֵ֣ה	se.Deh	[the] field of	H7704 →
אִישׁ־	'ish-	a person	H376 →
עָצֵ֣ל	'a.Tzel	lazy	H6102 →
עָבַ֑רְתִּי	'a.Var.ti	I passed by	H5674 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and at	H5921 →
כֶּ֝֗רֶם	Ke.rem	[the] vineyard of	H3754 →
אָדָ֥ם	'a.Dam	a person	H120 →
חֲסַר־	cha.sar-	lacking of	H2638 →
לֵֽב׃	Lev	heart	H3820 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 12:11
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
leads to
- Proverbs 28:19
  The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23
  There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12
  and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
Through
Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
leads to
- Galatians 6:7–8
  Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Proverbs 22:8
  He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- Hosea 8:7
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Hosea 10:12–13
  Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Job 15:35
  They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

06About Proverbs

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Where the connections lead

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