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Proverbs 24:27
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Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field;afterward, build your house.
Prepare your work outside. Make it ready for you in the field. Afterwards, build your house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Prepare your work outside, And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterward, then, build your house.
First, finish your outside work and prepare your fields. After that, you can build your house.
Prepare your work outside And get it ready for yourself in the field; Afterward build your house and establish a home.
Prepare your work outside. Make it ready for you in the field. Afterwards, build your house.
Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
Establish your work outsideAnd make it ready for yourself in the field;And afterwards, you shall build your house.
Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; after that, you can build your house.
Get your fields ready and plant your crops before starting a home.
Prepare your outside work, and get things ready for yourself on the land; after that, build your house.
Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.
First get your fields ready, next plant your crops, and then build your house.
Prepare your work out of doors, and make it ready in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Don't build your house and establish a home until your fields are ready, and you are sure that you can earn a living.
Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.
First make vp yi worke yt is wt out, & loke well vnto yt which thou hast in ye felde, & the buylde thine house.
Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
Prepare thy worke without, and make it fit for thy selfe in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Make redi thi werk with outforth, and worche thi feelde dilygentli, that thou bilde thin hous aftirward.
Prepare your work outside, And make it ready for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.
Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
Get your work done outside. Make your fields ready. Then after that, build your house.
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
Prepare, in the open, thy work, and make ready, in the field, for thyself, Afterwards, shalt thou build thy house.
Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.
First plant your fields; then build your barn.
Prepare your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, build your house.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Kings 5:17, 1 Kings 5:18, 1 Kings 6:7, Luke 14:28-30
Reciprocal: Judges 19:16 - his work Psalms 112:5 - he will Proverbs 17:19 - he that Jeremiah 22:14 - I will
Cross-References
He also said, "Blessed be the Lord , the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.
Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
And he said, "O Lord , God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.
When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Prepare thy work without,.... As Solomon did for the building of the temple; timber and stones were prepared, hewed, squared, and fitted for the building before brought thither, 1 Kings 5:18; or diligently attend to thy business without doors, whatever it is, that thou mayest provide for thyself and family the necessaries and conveniences of life, which are in the first place to be sought after;
and make it fit for thyself in the field; let nothing be wanting in managing the affairs of husbandry, in tilling the land, in ploughing and sowing, and reaping, and gathering in the increase, that there may be a sufficiency for the support of the family;
and afterwards build thine house; when, though the blessing of God upon thy diligence and industry, thou art become rich, or however hast such a competent substance as to be able to build a good house, and furnish it in a handsome manner, then do it; but first take care of the main point, that you have a sufficiency to finish it; see the advice of Christ, Luke 14:28; necessaries are first to be sought after, before things ornamental and superfluous; first take care to live, and then, if you can, build a fine house. Jarchi interprets this of a man's first getting fields, vineyards, and cattle, something beforehand in the world, and then take a wife, when he is able to maintain her, whereby his house may be built up; see Ruth 4:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
i. e., Get an estate into good order before erecting a house on it. To “build a house” may, however, be equivalent (compare Exodus 1:21; Deuteronomy 25:9; Ruth 4:11) to “founding a family;” and the words a warning against a hasty and imprudent marriage. The young man is taught to cultivate his land before he has to bear the burdens of a family. Further, in a spiritual sense, the “field” may be the man’s outer common work, the “house” the dwelling-place of his higher life. He must do the former faithfully in order to attain the latter. Neglect in one is fatal to the other. Compare Luke 16:10-11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 24:27. Prepare thy work without — Do nothing without a plan. In winter prepare seed, implements, tackle, geers, &c., for seed-time and harvest.
