Proverbs 27:26
in Proverbs 27the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;
KJV
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
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This verse in Proverbs 27
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThe lambs are for thy clothing,.... This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather "sheep", as many versions render it; of it cloth is made, and of that garments to be worn, to keep decent, warm, and comfortable; see Job 31:20; and the goats are the price of thy field: these, being brought up and sold, furnish the husbandman with money to purchase more fields to feed his cattle on.
This site's exposition
Be sure to know the state of your flocks
on Proverbs 27:23-27
"Be sure to know the state of your flocks" opens the chapter's close in the plain economics of a shepherd's life. The lambs clothe the household, and the goats bring "the price of a field." Goats' milk feeds the household and the maidservants, wisdom proved in ordinary provision.
This site's exposition
the lambs will provide you with clothing
Gill reads the lambs and goats as a reason for diligence with the flocks. The lambs provide wool for clothing. The goats, raised and sold, provide the price of a field for more pasture.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Lambs for your clothing, etc. He calls the innocent lambs, the penitent kids. You will be clothed with the fleece of the lambs, while you, the pastor, improve by the good manners of obedient disciples, and seeing their laudable deeds, you yourself will be more …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
(3.) Plain food and plain clothing, if they be but competent, are all we should aim at. "Reckon thyself well done to if thou be clothed with home-spun cloth with the fleece of thy own lambs, and fed with goats' milk; let that serve for thy food which serves for the food of thy household and the maintenance of thy maidens.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The fact that providential arrangements furnish the means of competence to those who properly use them is another motive to diligence (compare Ps 65:9-13). The hay appeareth--literally, "Grass appeareth" (Job 40:15;
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
The lambs are for thy clothing - So many fleeces are given in some places as rent to the landlord.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כְּבָשִׂ֥ים | kevasim | lambs | H3532 → | |
| לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ | lilvushekha | [are] for clothing your | H3830 → | 33 times |
| וּמְחִ֥יר | umechir | and [the] price of | H4242 → | |
| שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה | sadeh | a field | H7704 → | 334 times |
| עַתּוּדִֽים׃ | ʾatudim | goats | H6260 → |
כְּבָשִׂ֥יםlambs
kevasimH3532 →
לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ[are] for clothing your
lilvushekhaH3830 →33 times
וּמְחִ֥ירand [the] price of
umechirH4242 →
שָׂ֝דֶ֗הa field
sadehH7704 →334 times
עַתּוּדִֽים׃goats
ʾatudimH6260 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
2 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 31:20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 24:13
be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your…
- Job 29:11
For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
- Deuteronomy 24:13
Where this verse is studied
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.