Proverbs 27:8

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 16:2

For it shall be that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Proverbs 21:16

A man who strays from the road of understanding will rest in the congregation of the dead.

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let each man remain in the same condition in which he was called.

Jonah 1:3

But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found there a ship going to Tarshish. He paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

1 Kings 19:9

He came to a cave and camped there. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

1 Samuel 22:5

The prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David went and came to the forest of Hereth.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse without cause shall not alight.

Genesis 4:16

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

Jude 1:13

raging waves of the sea, which are foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept forever.

Genesis 21:14

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

Proverbs 27:7

A full soul loathes honey, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

1 Kings 11:22

Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me that you want to go to your own country?” And he answered, “Nothing, however let me go anyway.”