Proverbs 27:23
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
In Context
24For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.
Deuteronomy 32:46Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.
1 Chronicles 27:29And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys;
Proverbs 24:32Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.
Ezekiel 34:31And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
John 21:15Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
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 →