Proverbs Chapter 24 verse 27 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
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BBE Proverbs 24:27

Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
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DARBY Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.
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KJV Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
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WBT Proverbs 24:27


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WEB Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, And get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
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YLT Proverbs 24:27

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Prepare thy work without. The proverb enjoins a man to look well to his resources before he undertakes to build a house or to establish a family. "Without" (chuts) (Proverbs 7:12; Proverbs 8:26); in the fields. Put in due order all immediate work in thy farm. And make it fit for thyself in the field; and get ready for what has to come next. That is, in short, steadily and with due foresight cultivate your land; provide abundant means of subsistence before you attempt to build up your house. A suitor had, as it were, to purchase his bride from her relations by making considerable presents; it was therefore necessary to provide a certain amount of wealth before contemplating matrimony. And afterwards build thy house. This is, indeed, the meaning of the passage; but the Hebrew makes a difficulty, as it is literally, "afterwards and thou shalt build." Some have supposed that some words have dropped out of the text (Cheyne, 'Job and Solomon'). But vav in וּבָנִיתָ, coming after a date or notification of time, as here after אַהַר (comp. Genesis 3:5), "has the future signification of a perfect consecutive" (Delitzsch), equivalent to "after that, then, thou mayest build." Septuagint, "Prepare thy works for thy going forth (εἰς τη,ν ἔξοδον), and get ready for the field, and come after me, and thou shalt build up thine house." In a spiritual sense, the heart must be first cleared of thorns, and opened to genial influences, before the man can build up the fabric of virtuous habits, and thus arrive at the virtuous character.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Prepare thy work without . . .--Method in work is here advised; first till the ground, and then build the house which will be maintained by the produce of the field. In the spiritual life, too, we should seek to "perceive and know what things we ought to do," if we are not to waste time and energy upon unsuitable and unattainable objects.