Proverbs 24:27
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.

New Revised Standard Version
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Contemporary English Version
Get your fields ready and plant your crops before starting a home.

New American Bible
Complete your outdoor tasks, and arrange your work in the field; afterward you can build your house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.

1 Kings 5:17,18 And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them: . . .

1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

Luke 14:28-30 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it: . . .

Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
26He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words. 27Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.…
Cross References
Proverbs 24:26
He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.

Proverbs 27:23
Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:

Proverbs 24:26
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