Proverbs 27:8
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
BSB
ASV
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.
KJV
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Is a bird that wandereth from her nest - Leaving her own brood, places of retreat, and feeding-ground behind, and going into strange countries, where she is exposed to every kind of danger. So is the man who leaves his family connections and country, and goes into strange parts to find employment, better his circumstances, make a fortune, etc. I have seen multitudes of such wanderers from their place come to great misery and wretchedness. God’s general advice is, “Do good, and dwell in the land; and verily thou shalt be fed.”
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jonah 1:3Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…
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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, including the territory across from Joppa.
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
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1 Corinthians 7:20Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.
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Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
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Proverbs 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
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But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.