Proverbs 24:27

WEB

²⁷Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

KJV

²⁷Prepare^[+] thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

BSB

²⁷Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

FBV

²⁷Do the work you need to do outside first, then prepare and sow your fields, and only after that start building your house.

Extra References

Luke 14:28-30

²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

1 Kings 5:17-18

¹⁷The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. ¹⁸Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

1 Kings 6:7

⁷The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.