Proverbs 27:23

Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds.

LXX2012 (British)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will still in no wise remove his folly from him.

24For a man has not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.

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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 you⌃ shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.

1 Chronicles 27:29And over the oxen pasturing in Saron was Satrai the Saronite; and over the oxen in the valleys was Sophat the son of Adli.

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

Ezekiel 34:31you⌃ are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, says 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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