Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home. New Living Translation A person who strays from home is like a bird that strays from its nest. English Standard Version Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. Berean Standard Bible Like a bird that strays from its nest 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. New King James Version Like a bird that wanders from its nest Is a man who wanders from his place. New American Standard Bible Like a bird that wanders from its nest, So is a person who wanders from his home. NASB 1995 Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home. NASB 1977 Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home. Legacy Standard Bible Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his place. Amplified Bible Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety], So is a man who wanders from his home. Christian Standard Bible Anyone wandering from his home is like a bird wandering from its nest. Holman Christian Standard Bible A man wandering from his home is like a bird wandering from its nest. American Standard Version As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Like a bird that leaves its nest, so is a man that is removed from his place. Brenton Septuagint Translation As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place. Contemporary English Version When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest. Douay-Rheims Bible As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place. English Revised Version As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. GOD'S WORD® Translation Like a bird wandering from its nest, so is a husband wandering from his home. Good News Translation Anyone away from home is like a bird away from its nest. International Standard Version Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders away from his home. JPS Tanakh 1917 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place. Literal Standard Version As a bird wandering from her nest, | So [is] a man wandering from his place. Majority Standard Bible Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home. New American Bible Like a bird far from the nest so is anyone far from home. NET Bible Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home. New Revised Standard Version Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home. New Heart English Bible As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. Webster's Bible Translation As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. World English Bible As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. Young's Literal Translation As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place. Additional Translations ... Context Do not Boast about Tomorrow…7The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet. 8Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home. 9Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.… Cross References Genesis 21:14 Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. Proverbs 26:2 Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest. Proverbs 27:7 The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet. Isaiah 16:2 Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon: Treasury of Scripture As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place. a bird Job 39:14-16 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, … Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. man Proverbs 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Genesis 14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. Genesis 16:6-8 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face… Jump to Previous Bird Eggs Home Nest Station Strays Wandereth Wandering WandersJump to Next Bird Eggs Home Nest Station Strays Wandereth Wandering WandersProverbs 27 1. observations of self love5. of true love 11. of care to avoid offenses 23. and of the household care (8) A man that wandereth from his place.--That wandereth forth as an exile that has lost his home. Comp. Genesis 12:4, and, on the contrary, Job's hope that he would "die in his nest" (Proverbs 29:18). For the spiritual sense comp. Luke 15:13, sqq.Verse 8. - As a bird that wandereth from her nest. Jerome's avis transmigrans conveys to us a notion of a migratory bird taking its annual journey. But the idea here is of a bird which leaves its own nest either wantonly or from some external reason, and thereby exposes itself to d so comfort and danger (comp. Isaiah 16:2). So is a man that wandereth from his place; i.e. his own home (comp. Ecclus. 29:21, etc., and 36:28 in Vet. Lat., "Quis credit ei qui non habet nidum, et deflectens ubicumque obscuraverit, quasi succinctus latro exsil ins de civitate in civitatem?"). The proverb indirectly inculcates love of one's home and one's native land. To be "a fugitive and a vagabond" (Genesis 4:12) was a terrible punishment, as the Jews have learned by the experience of many centuries. Language and religion placed a barrier against residence in any country but their own (see Psalm 84.); and though at the time when this book was probably written they knew little of foreign travel, yet they regarded sojourn in a strange land as an evil, and centred all their ideas of happiness and comfort in a home life surrounded by friends and countrymen. The word "wander" may have the notion of going into exile. Septuagint, "As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so is a man brought into bondage when he is banished (ἀποξενωθῇ) from his own place." Some have reasoned from this expression that the idea of exile had become familiar to the writer, and hence that this portion of the Proverbs is of very late origin (Cheyne) - surely a very uncertain foundation for such a conclusion. The love of Orientals for their native soil is a passion which no sordid and miserable surroundings can extinguish, and a man would consider even a change of home an unmixed evil, though such change was not the result of exile. Our view of the fortunes of one who is always shifting his abode is expressed in the adage, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Like a birdכְּ֭צִפּוֹר (kə·ṣip·pō·wr) Preposition-k | Noun - common singular Strong's 6833: A little bird that strays נוֹדֵ֥ד (nō·w·ḏêḏ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away from its nest קִנָּ֑הּ (qin·nāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 7064: A nest, the nestlings, a chamber, dwelling [is] a man אִ֝֗ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person who wanders נוֹדֶ֣דֶת (nō·w·ḏe·ḏeṯ) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away from מִן־ (min-) Preposition Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of his home. מִמְּקוֹמֽוֹ׃ (mim·mə·qō·w·mōw) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition Links Proverbs 27:8 NIVProverbs 27:8 NLT Proverbs 27:8 ESV Proverbs 27:8 NASB Proverbs 27:8 KJV Proverbs 27:8 BibleApps.com Proverbs 27:8 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 27:8 Chinese Bible Proverbs 27:8 French Bible Proverbs 27:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wanders from her (Prov. 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