the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 27:26
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your sheep will provide wool for clothing, and your goats will provide the price of a field.
The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;
Make clothes from the lambs' wool, and sell some goats to buy a field.
the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field.
The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field.
the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
Lambren be to thi clothing; and kidis be to the prijs of feeld.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field:
the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
you can sell lambs and goats to buy clothes and land.
The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
the lambs will provide your clothing, the goats will sell for enough to buy a field,
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;
Cut the wool from your lambs, and make your clothes. Sell some of your goats, and buy some land.
The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field.
The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field.
The lambs will be for your clothes, and the goats will bring the price of a field.
the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;
The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of the fielde.
The lambs are for your clothing and the kids are for your sustenance;
You can make clothes from the wool of your sheep and buy land with the money you get from selling some of your goats.
There are, lambs, for thy clothing, and, for the price of thy field, there are he-goats;
Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;
The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry.
As if one should stop a well, and corrupt a spring of water, so is it unseemly for a righteous man to fall before an ungodly man.
lambs will provide your clothing,and goats, the price of a field;
The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field.
the lambs will be for your clothing, and the he goats the price for a field,
Lambs [are] for thy clothing, And the price of the field [are] he-goats,
The lambes shal clothe the, & for the goates thou shalt haue money to yi hu?bondry.
The lambs will be for your clothing, And the goats will bring the price of a field,
The lambs will provide your clothing, And the goats the price of a field;
The lambs will be for your clothing, And the goats will bring the price of a field,
The lambs will be for your clothing,And the goats will bring the price of a field,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Job 31:20
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The lambs [are] for thy clothing,.... This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather "sheep", as many versions render it; of it cloth is made, and of that garments to be worn, to keep decent, warm, and comfortable; see Job 31:20;
and the goats [are] the price of thy field: these, being brought up and sold, furnish the husbandman with money to purchase more fields to feed his cattle on. The Targum is,
"the goats are for negotiation;''
with the price of them a man may purchase any of the necessaries of life for himself and family; these are negotiated, Ezekiel 27:21; the Syriac version is, "the goats are for thy food"; and so, between both the sheep and goats, man has both food and raiment; though his food is particularly mentioned in Proverbs 27:27.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.
Proverbs 27:23
The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.
Proverbs 27:24
Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”
Proverbs 27:25
Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 27:26. The lambs are for thy clothing — So many fleeces are given in some places as rent to the landlord.
