Holy Scripture

Proverbs 24:30

A church father on this verse
“In Proverbs: "I passed by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man without sense; and behold! it was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down." This happens when a man has good intentions but does not fulfill them: then it is that the thistles of ma…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19

Source: Septuagint

Original

30A foolish man is like a farm, And a senseless man is like a vineyard.

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28Be not a false witness against thy fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.

29Say not, As he has treated me, so will I treat him, And I will avenge myself on him for that wherein he has injured me.

— Proverbs 24:30 —

31If thou let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; And he becomes destitute, And his stone walls are broken down.

32Afterward I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction.

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