Proverbs 27:23
Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks :
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
In Context
24For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.
Deuteronomy 32:46And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:
1 Chronicles 27:29And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and over the. oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:
Proverbs 24:32Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
Ezekiel 34:31And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.
John 21:15When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith 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 →