Proverbs 24:27 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:27: This is a rule of prudence in the management of household affairs; for all good men should be good husbands, and manage with discretion, which would prevent a great deal of sin, and trouble, and disgrace to their profession. 1. We must prefer necessaries before conveniences, and not lay that out for show which should be expended for the support of the family.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:27: Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me,.... He has falsely accused and reproached me, and bore a false testimony, or suborned false witnesses against me, and I will do the same to him, now an opportunity serves; but as private revenge itself is sinful, so especially when it is pursued in a wicked way; I will render to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:27: Prepare . . . in the field--Secure, by diligence, a proper support, and then build; provide necessaries, then comforts, to which a house rather pertained, in a mild climate, permitting the use of tents.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 24:27: Prepare thy work outside, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house. (h) Be sure of the means how to compass it, before you take any enterprise in hand.