Proverbs 27:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who strays from his home.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

Common English Bible

⁸ Like a bird wandering from its nest, so is one who wanders from home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Just like a bird migrating from her nest, so also is a man who abandons his place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Proverbs 27:8 Cross References

Genesis 21:14

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 4:16

Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

1 Kings 11:22

But Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack with me that you now seek to go to your own country?” And he said, “No, do let me go.”

1 Kings 19:9

At that place he came to a cave and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Proverbs 27:7

The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

Jonah 1:3

But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid his fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let each of you remain in the condition in which you were called.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

1 Samuel 22:5

Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went into the forest of Hereth.