Proverbs 27:18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

English Standard Version
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

New American Standard Bible
He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored.

King James Bible
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever looks after his master will be honored.

International Standard Version
Whoever nurtures the fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever obeys his master will be honored.

American Standard Version
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.

Darby Bible Translation
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.

Young's Literal Translation
The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honoured.

Cross References

Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Luke 19:17
And he said to him, Well, you good servant: because you have been faithful in a very little, have you authority over ten cities.

1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 9:7
Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.

2 Kings 18:31
Listen not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat you every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink you every one the waters of his cistern:

Psalm 123:2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until that he have mercy on us.

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Proverbs 27:19
As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.

Song of Solomon 8:12
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:15,16. The contentions of a neighbour may be like a sharp shower, troublesome for a time; the contentions of a wife are like constant rain. 17. We are cautioned to take heed whom we converse with. And directed to have in view, in conversation, to make one another wiser and better. 18. Though a calling be laborious and despised, yet those who keep to it, will find there is something to be got by it. God is a Master who has engaged to honour those who serve him faithfully. 19. One corrupt heart is like another; so are sanctified hearts: the former bear the same image of the earthly, the latter the same image of the heavenly. Let us carefully watch our own hearts, comparing them with the word of God. 20. Two things are here said to be never satisfied, death and sin. The appetites of the carnal mind for profit or pleasure are always desiring more. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord, are satisfied in him, and shall for ever be so. 21. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is a man tried by praising him. 22. Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change. 23-27. We ought to have some business to do in this world, and not to live in idleness, and not to meddle with what we do not understand. We must be diligent and take pains. Let us do what we can, still the world cannot be secured to us, therefore we must choose a more lasting portion; but by the blessing of God upon our honest labours, we may expect to enjoy as much of earthly blessings as is good for us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. Diligence secures a reward, even for the humble servant.