Verse 27
Proverbs 24:27
Geneva Bible
27
Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָ֘כֵ֤ן בַּ/ח֨וּץ מְלַאכְתֶּ֗/ךָ וְ/עַתְּדָ֣/הּ בַּ/שָּׂדֶ֣ה לָ֑/ךְ אַ֝חַ֗ר וּ/בָנִ֥יתָ בֵיתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
Prepare your work outside and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, build your house.
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Chapter 24 Context
1
Be not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.
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For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.
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Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.
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And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.
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A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.
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For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsel...
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Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.
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Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.
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The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.
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10
If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
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11
Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine?
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12
If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it?...
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13
My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
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So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, a...
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15
Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
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For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.
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17
Bee thou not glad when thine enemie falleth, and let not thine heart reioyce when hee stumbleth,
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18
Least the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.
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Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.
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For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out...
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My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.
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For their destruction shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
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ALSO THESE THINGS PERTEINE TO THE WISE, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
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24
He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall...
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But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.
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They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.
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27
Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
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Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
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Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his work...
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I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding...
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And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone...
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32
Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
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Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.
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34
So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.
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