Proverbs 27:8
Having to leave home is like a bird having to leave its nest.
Free Bible 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
7If you're full up, you can't face honey; but if you're starving, even bitter food tastes sweet.
9Perfume and scented oils make you feel happy, but good advice from a friend is even better.
Cross References
Genesis 4:16So Cain left the Lord's presence and went to live in a land called Nod, east of Eden.
1 Samuel 22:5But then the prophet Gad told David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go back to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
1 Kings 11:22Pharaoh asked him, “Is there anything that you have lacked here with me that now you want to go back to your own country?” “No, there's nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please just let me go home.”
Nehemiah 6:11I replied, “Should someone like me run away? Should someone like me go and hide in the Temple so I can survive? I'm not going!”
Proverbs 21:16Anyone who wanders away from the path of understanding ends up with the dead.
Isaiah 16:2The Moabite women at the fords of the Arnon are like birds fluttering around when their nest is destroyed.
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 →