Proverbs 27:8

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Summary

Proverbs 27:8

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

A bird

Job 39:14

Isaiah 16:2

Man

Bible References

A bird

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

Man

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.