World English Bible
Proverbs 24:31
“Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 24
29
Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
30
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
32
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
33
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;