Proverbs 24:31 (BSB)

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:31

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:30-34: Here is, 1. The view which Solomon took of the field and vineyard of the slothful man. He did not go on purpose to see it, but, as he passed by, observing the fruitfulness of the ground, as it is very proper for travellers to do, and his subjects' management of their land, as it is very proper for magistrates to do, he cast his...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:31: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,.... The sight of the field and vineyard of the slothful put Solomon in mind of an observation he had made before, which fitly describes the disposition and gesture of the sluggard, by which means his field and vineyard came to ruin; while he should be up and tilling his field and planting his vineyard, he is in his...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:30-34: Pro 24:30-34 A Mashal ode of the slothful, in the form of a record of experiences, concludes this second supplement (vid., vol. i. p. 17): 30 The field of a slothful man I came past, And the vineyard of a man devoid of understanding. 31 And, lo! it was wholly filled up with thorns; Its face was covered with nettles; And its wall of stones was broken down.