Proverbs 24:27

Modern

Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

Traditional

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

Literal

Prepare your work in the outdoors, and make it ready in the field for yourself; and afterward you may build your house.

Latin

Præpara foris opus tuum, et diligenter exerce agrum tuum, ut postea ædifices domum tuam.

Hebrew

English

Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

Saying 3: A wise person finds a way to earn money before spending it on themselves.

This addendum to the thirty sayings of the wise (Proverbs 22:17–24:22) includes five more sayings.

Luke 14:28–30
Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
1 Kings 5:17–18
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
1 Kings 6:7
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.