Proverbs 27:8
Just like a bird migrating from her nest, so also is a man who abandons his place.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:16And so Cain, departing from the face of the Lord, lived as a fugitive on the earth, toward the eastern region of Eden.
1 Samuel 22:5And the prophet Gad said to David: “Do not choose to stay in the stronghold. Set out and go into the land of Judah.” And so, David set out, and he went into the forest of Hereth.
1 Kings 11:22And Pharaoh said to him, “But what is lacking to you with me, so that you would seek to go to your own land?” But he responded: “Nothing. Yet I beg you that you may release me.”
Nehemiah 6:11And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”
Proverbs 21:16A man who wanders astray from the way of doctrine will linger in the company of the giants.
Isaiah 16:2And this shall be: like a bird fleeing away, and like fledglings flying from the nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the passage of Arnon.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:8
7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Solomon here, as often in this book, shows that the poor have in some respects the advantage of the rich; for, 1. They have a better relish of their enjoyments than the rich have. Hunger is the best sauce. Coarse fare, with a good appetite to it has a sensible pleasantness in it, which those are strangers to whose hearts are overcharged with surfeiting. Those that fare sumptuously every day nauseate even delicate food, as… Read the whole commentary →