Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wandereth away from her nest, so is a man that wandereth away from his place.
Leeser Tanakh
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 Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
1 Samuel 22:5And the prophet Gad said unto David, Thou must not remain in the strong-hold: depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Chereth.
1 Kings 11:22Then said Pharaoh unto him, But what dost thou lack with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he answered, Nothing: nevertheless thou must let me go away.
Nehemiah 6:11And I said, Should a man like me flee? and who is there that is like me, that would go into the temple and live? I will not go in.
Proverbs 21:16The man that wandereth astray out of the way of intelligence shall rest in the assembly of the departed.
Isaiah 16:2For it shall be, that, as a fugitive bird, as a chased nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords 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 →