Proverbs 27:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 27:8 —

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Cross-References

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Jonah 1:10-17
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. …
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
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
1 Corinthians 7:20
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Topics

Character Constancy Decision Depravity of Man Fickleness Graces Guilt Heart

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8)

Note, 1. There are many that do not know when they are well off, but are uneasy with their present condition, and given to change. God, in his providence, has appointed them a place fit for them and has made it comfortable to them; but they affect unsettledness; they love to wander; they are glad of a pretence to go abroad, and do not care for staying long at a place; they needlessly absent themse…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Such are not only out of place, but out of duty and in danger.