Proverbs 27:23

Do thou thoroughly know the number of thy flock, 1 And pay attention to thy herds. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

In Context

22Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, 1 Thou wilt still in nowise remove his folly from him. 1

24For a man has not strength and power forever; 1 Neither does he transmit it from generation to generation. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 33:13And he said to him, My lord knows, that the children are very tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are with young; if then I shall drive them hard one day, all the cattle will die.

Deuteronomy 32:46And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.

1 Chronicles 27:29And over the oxen pasturing in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the oxen in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.

Proverbs 24:32Afterward I reflected, 1 I looked that I might receive instruction. 1

Ezekiel 34:31ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

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 →

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