New Revised Standard Version
Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

Contemporary English Version
When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest.

New American Bible
Like a bird far from the nest so is anyone far from home.

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

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

a bird

Job 39:14-16 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust. . . .

Isaiah 16:2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

man

Proverbs 21:16 A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Genesis 14:16 And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also, and the people.

Genesis 16:6-8 And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away. . . .

1 Samuel 22:5 And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart, and go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the forest of Haret.

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

1 Kings 19:9 And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave. and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?

Nehemiah 6:11-13 And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in. . . .

Jonah 1:3,10-17 Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.