Proverbs 27:8 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

KJV

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ASV

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

WEB

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

YLT

As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place.

DBT

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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15 verses on the floor

Proverbs 26:2
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Proverbs 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Isaiah 16:2
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Jonah 1:10–17
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

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