Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

荆棘长满了地皮，刺草遮盖了田面，石墙也坍塌了。

看哪，它长满了荆棘，荨麻盖地面，石墙也坍塌了。

看哪，它长满了荆棘，荨麻盖地面，石墙也坍塌了。

那里荆棘遍地，刺草丛生，石墙倒塌。

只见到处长满蒺藜，地面盖满刺草，石墙也倒塌了。

看哪，那里到处长满灌木丛，杂草遮盖地面，石头的围墙也倒塌了！

荊棘長滿了地皮，刺草遮蓋了田面，石牆也坍塌了。

看哪，它長滿了荊棘，蕁麻蓋地面，石牆也坍塌了。

看哪，它長滿了荊棘，蕁麻蓋地面，石牆也坍塌了。

那裡荊棘遍地，刺草叢生，石牆倒塌。

只見到處長滿蒺藜，地面蓋滿刺草，石牆也倒塌了。

只見蒺藜長滿了地皮！刺草蓋滿了田面！其石牆也翻毁了！

看哪，那裡到處長滿灌木叢，雜草遮蓋地面，石頭的圍牆也倒塌了！

荊棘滿地、蒺藜蔓延、石垣傾圮、

草萊蔓延、荊棘叢生、墻垣傾圮、

見荒草遍地、荊棘叢生、墻垣傾圮、

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

Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds. The stone wall had fallen down.

and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.

Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.

And behold, it was completely overgrown with weeds; Its surface was covered with weeds, And its stone wall was broken down.

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

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

Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.

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

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,“ Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

To Adam he said,“ Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying,‘ You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

The sluggard says,“ There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”