Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.

English Standard Version
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

New American Standard Bible
Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.

King James Bible
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A man wandering from his home is like a bird wandering from its nest.

International Standard Version
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders away from his home.

American Standard Version
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Darby Bible Translation
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Young's Literal Translation
As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:1 We know not what a day may bring forth. This does not forbid preparing for to-morrow, but presuming upon to-morrow. We must not put off the great work of conversion, that one thing needful. 2. There may be occasion for us to justify ourselves, but not to praise ourselves. 3,4. Those who have no command of their passions, sink under the load. 5,6. Plain and faithful rebukes are better, not only than secret hatred, but than love which compliments in sin, to the hurt of the soul. 7. The poor have a better relish of their enjoyments, and are often more thankful for them, than the rich. In like manner the proud and self-sufficient disdain the gospel; but those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, find comfort from the meanest book or sermon that testifies of Christ Jesus. 8. Every man has his proper place in society, where he may be safe and comfortable.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. Such are not only out of place, but out of duty and in danger.