Proverbs 27:25 (BSB)

When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:23-27: Here is, I. A command given us to be diligent in our callings. It is directed to husbandmen and shepherds, and those that deal in cattle, but it is to be extended to all other lawful callings; whatever our business is, within doors or without, we must apply our minds to it. This command intimates, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:25: And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food,.... The word for "goats", in Pro 27:26, signifies he goats, which were sold to buy fields, pay servants or rent, or purchase the necessaries of life; and this here signifies she goats, which were kept for their milk; and which was daily used for food in some countries, and is still in use for the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:25: The fact that providential arrangements furnish the means of competence to those who properly use them is another motive to diligence (compare Psa 65:9-13). The hay appeareth--literally, "Grass appeareth" (Job 40:15; Psa 104:14).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:23-27: Pro 27:23-27 An exhortation to rural industry, and particularly to the careful tending of cattle for breeding, forms the conclusion of the foregoing series of proverbs, in which we cannot always discern an intentional grouping. It is one of the Mashal-odes spoken of vol. i. p. 12. It consists of 11 = 4 + 7 lines.