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Literal Standard Version

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work in an out-place, || And make it ready in the field—go afterward, || Then you have built your house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Economics;   Prudence;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Forethought;   Prudence-Rashness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fit;   Proverbs, Book of;   Ready;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field;afterward, build your house.
Hebrew Names Version
Prepare your work outside. Make it ready for you in the field. Afterwards, build your house.
King James Version
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
English Standard Version
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
New American Standard Bible
Prepare your work outside, And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterward, then, build your house.
New Century Version
First, finish your outside work and prepare your fields. After that, you can build your house.
Amplified Bible
Prepare your work outside And get it ready for yourself in the field; Afterward build your house and establish a home.
World English Bible
Prepare your work outside. Make it ready for you in the field. Afterwards, build your house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
Legacy Standard Bible
Establish your work outsideAnd make it ready for yourself in the field;And afterwards, you shall build your house.
Berean Standard Bible
Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; after that, you can build your house.
Contemporary English Version
Get your fields ready and plant your crops before starting a home.
Complete Jewish Bible
Prepare your outside work, and get things ready for yourself on the land; after that, build your house.
Darby Translation
Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.
Easy-to-Read Version
First get your fields ready, next plant your crops, and then build your house.
George Lamsa Translation
Prepare your work out of doors, and make it ready in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Good News Translation
Don't build your house and establish a home until your fields are ready, and you are sure that you can earn a living.
Lexham English Bible
Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.
Literal Translation
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
First make vp yi worke yt is wt out, & loke well vnto yt which thou hast in ye felde, & the buylde thine house.
American Standard Version
Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
Bible in Basic English
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
King James Version (1611)
Prepare thy worke without, and make it fit for thy selfe in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.
English Revised Version
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make redi thi werk with outforth, and worche thi feelde dilygentli, that thou bilde thin hous aftirward.
Update Bible Version
Prepare your work outside, And make it ready for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.
Webster's Bible Translation
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
New English Translation
Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
New King James Version
Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.
New Living Translation
Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
New Life Bible
Get your work done outside. Make your fields ready. Then after that, build your house.
New Revised Standard
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Prepare, in the open, thy work, and make ready, in the field, for thyself, Afterwards, shalt thou build thy house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
Revised Standard Version
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
Young's Literal Translation
Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.
THE MESSAGE
First plant your fields; then build your barn.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Prepare your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, build your house.

Contextual Overview

27Prepare your work in an out-place, || And make it ready in the field—go afterward, || Then you have built your house.

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

Genesis 9:26
And he says: "Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, || And Canaan is servant to him.
Genesis 13:8
And Abram says to Lot, "Please let there not be strife between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we [are] men—brothers.
Genesis 14:20
and blessed [is] God Most High, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand"; and he gives to him a tenth of all.
Genesis 24:4
but to my land and to my family you go, and have taken a wife for my son, for Isaac."
Genesis 24:10
And the servant takes ten camels of the camels of his lord and goes, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he rises, and goes to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor;
Genesis 24:11
and he causes the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at evening, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.
Genesis 24:12
And he says, "YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, please cause to meet before me this day—(and do kindness with my lord Abraham;
Genesis 24:13
behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
Genesis 24:18
and she says, "Drink, my lord"; and she hurries, and lets down her pitcher on her hand, and gives him drink.
Genesis 24:19
And she finishes giving him drink and says, "Also for your camels I draw 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.


 
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