30 I went past the field of a sluggard,(A)
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;

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

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30 I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;

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31 thorns had come up everywhere,
    the ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone wall was in ruins.

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

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31 And there it was, (A)all overgrown with thorns;
Its surface was covered with nettles;
Its stone wall was broken down.

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18 Through laziness, the rafters sag;
    because of idle hands, the house leaks.(A)

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18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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18 Because of laziness the [a]building decays,
And (A)through idleness of hands the house leaks.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:18 Lit. rafters sink