Proverbs 27:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Like a bird that wanders from its nest, So is a man who wanders from his place.

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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.

Proverbs 27:8 Cross References

Genesis 21:14

And Aḇ

Genesis 4:16

So Qayin went out from the presence of יהוה  and dwelt in the land of Noḏ

1 Kings 11:22

And Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that you are now seeking to go to your own land?” And he answered, “No, but please let me go.”

1 Kings 19:9

And there he went into a cave and spent the night there. And see, the word of יהוה  came to him, and said to him, “What are you doing here, Ě

Proverbs 21:16

A man who strays from the way of understanding, Rests in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 26:2

As a bird wanders, as a swallow flies about, So a curse without cause does not come.

Proverbs 27:7

One satisfied loathes the honeycomb, But to a hungry one any bitter food is sweet.

Isaiah 16:2

And it shall be, like a wandering bird, a nest thrown out, so are the daughters of Mo’aḇ

Jonah 1:3

But Yonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of יהוה, and went down to Yapho, and found a ship going to Tarshish. And he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of יהוה.

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.

1 Samuel 22:5

And the prophet Gaḏ