New Revised Standard Version
The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Contemporary English Version
A lazy person refuses to clear a thorny path, but everyone who does right walks on a smooth road.

New American Bible
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn hedge, but the path of the diligent is a highway.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

ways of the slothful

Proverbs 22:5,13 Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them. . . .

Proverbs 26:13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

Numbers 14:1-3,7-9 Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night. . . .

the way of the righteous

Proverbs 3:6 Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Proverbs 8:9 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.

Psalm 5:8 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.

Psalm 25:8,9,12 The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way. . . .

Psalm 27:11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

Isaiah 30:21 And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

Isaiah 35:8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.

made plain

Isaiah 57:14 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.