Proverbs 24:27
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 Standard Bible
Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

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.

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
Establish your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; And afterwards, you shall 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Prepare your works in the outdoors and make ready in your field, and after that build your 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Majority Standard Bible
Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

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

NET Bible
Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

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

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

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

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Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
26An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips. 27Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house. 28Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.…

Cross References
Proverbs 24:26
An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.

Proverbs 27:23
Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;


Treasury of Scripture

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

1 Kings 5:17,18
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house…

1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? …

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(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Complete
הָ֘כֵ֤ן (hā·ḵên)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

your outdoor
בַּח֨וּץ ׀ (ba·ḥūṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

work,
מְלַאכְתֶּ֗ךָ (mə·laḵ·te·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4399: Deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property

and prepare
וְעַתְּדָ֣הּ (wə·‘at·tə·ḏāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6257: To be ready

your field;
בַּשָּׂדֶ֣ה (baś·śā·ḏeh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land

after that,
אַ֝חַ֗ר (’a·ḥar)
Adverb
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

you can build
וּבָנִ֥יתָ (ū·ḇā·nî·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

your house.
בֵיתֶֽךָ׃ (ḇê·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house


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