Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;