Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.