Proverbs 27:23
Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks,
Catholic Public Domain 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 you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13And Jacob said: “My lord, you know that I have with me tender little ones, and sheep, and cows with young. If I cause these to labor too much in walking, all the flocks will die in one day.
Deuteronomy 32:46And he said to them: “Set your hearts upon all the words which I am testifying to you this day. So shall you command your sons, to keep, and to do, and to fulfill all the things that have been written in this law.
1 Chronicles 27:29Now over the herds that were pastured in Sharon, Shitrai, a Sharonite, was in the first place; and over the oxen in the valleys, there was Shaphat, the son of Adlai.
Proverbs 24:32When I had seen this, I laid it up in my heart, and by this example, I received discipline.
Ezekiel 34:31For you are my flocks; the flocks of my pasture are men. And I am the Lord your God, says the Lord God.”
John 21:15Then, when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said 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 →