Holy Scripture
Proverbs 24:31
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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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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.
30A foolish man is like a farm, And a senseless man is like a vineyard.
— Proverbs 24:31 —
32Afterward I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction.
33The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, And for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.