Proverbs 27:8
As a bird wandering from her nest, || So [is] a man wandering from his place.
Literal Standard 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
7A satiated soul treads down a honeycomb, || And every bitter thing [is] sweet [to] a hungry soul.
Cross References
Genesis 4:16And Cain goes out from before YHWH, and dwells in the land, moving about east of Eden;
1 Samuel 22:5And the prophet Gad says to David, “You do not abide in a fortress, go, and you have entered the land of Judah for yourself”; and David goes and enters the forest of Hareth.
1 Kings 11:22And Pharaoh says to him, “But what are you lacking with me, that behold, you are seeking to go to your own land?” And he says, “Nothing, but you certainly send me away.”
Nehemiah 6:11And I say, “A man such as I—does he flee? And who as I, that goes into the temple, and lives? I do not go in.”
Proverbs 21:16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, || Rests in an assembly of Rephaim.
Isaiah 16:2And it has come to pass, || As a wandering bird, cast out of a nest, || Are daughters of Moab, [at] 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 →