Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
In Context
24For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?
Cross References
Genesis 33:13And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Deuteronomy 32:46And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
1 Chronicles 27:29And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
Proverbs 24:32Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
Ezekiel 34:31And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says lord LORD.
John 21:15So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:23
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Solomon had said ( ch. xxii. 15 ), The foolishness which is bound in the heart of a child may be driven out by the rod of correction, for then the mind is to be moulded, the vicious habits not having taken root; but here he shows that, if it be not done then, it will be next to impossible to do it afterwards; if the disease be inveterate, there is a danger of its being incurable. Can the… Read the whole commentary →