Proverbs 24:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.

New Living Translation
Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.

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

Berean Study Bible
Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may 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.

NASB 1995
Prepare your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, build your house.

NASB 1977
Prepare your work outside, And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, 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.

Christian Standard Bible
Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; afterward, build your house.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; afterward, build your house.

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

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Prepare your work outside, and get things ready for yourself in the field. Afterwards, build your house.

International Standard Version
First do your outside work, preparing your land for yourself. After that, build your house.

NET Bible
Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

New King James Version
Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.

King James 2000 Bible
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.

New Heart English Bible
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

World English Bible
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

American King James Version
Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.

American Standard Version
Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

A Faithful Version
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.

Darby Bible Translation
Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.

English Revised Version
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

Webster's Bible Translation
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
First make vp yi worke yt is wt out, & loke well vnto yt which thou hast in ye felde, & the buylde thine house.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Prepare your work in an out-place, "" And make it ready in the field—go afterward, "" Then you have built 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field afterwards; and build thy house.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Prepare your outdoor work, and diligently cultivate your field, so that afterward, you may build your house.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Prepare your works in the outdoors and make ready in your field, and after that build your house.

Lamsa Bible
Prepare your work out of doors, and make it ready in the field; and afterwards build your house.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Prepare thy work without, And make it fit for thyself in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Prepare thy works for thy going forth, and prepare thyself for the field; and come after me, and thou shalt rebuild thine house.
















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