Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Like a bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who wanders from his home.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A man wandering from his home
is like a bird wandering from its nest.

International Standard Version

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders away from his home.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety],
So is a man who wanders from his home.

Bible in Basic English

Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

As the bird wandering from her nest, so is a man wandering from his place.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that oft times flitteth, is like a bird that forsaketh her nest.

NET Bible

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

New Heart English Bible

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

Youngs Literal Translation

As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As a bird
צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

נדד 
Nadad 
נדד 
Nadad 
Usage: 28
Usage: 28

קן 
Qen 
Usage: 13

so is a man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

All About Life

7 The full person dislikes the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet. 8 Like a bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who wanders from his home.
9 As oil and perfume delight the heart so the sweetness of a man's friend delights his heart.

Cross References

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

Genesis 4:16

Cain went out from Jehovah's presence and lived in the land of Nod (Fugitiveness). Nod is east of Eden.

Genesis 16:6-8

Your servant is in your hands, Abram said. Do with her whatever you think best. Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her.

1 Samuel 22:5

Do not live in your stronghold, the prophet Gad told David. Go to the land of Judah. So David went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 27:1-12

David thought to himself: One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is escape to Philistia. Saul will give up looking for me in Israel. Then I will be safe.

1 Kings 19:9

He went into a cave and spent the night. The word of Jehovah came to him, saying: What are you doing here, Elijah?

Nehemiah 6:11-13

I replied: Am I the sort of man to go in flight? What man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep safe? I will not go in.

Job 39:14-16

She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who wanders from the way of understanding will remain in the congregation of the dead.

Proverbs 26:2

Like the bird by wandering, like the swallow by flying, so a curse without cause does not land.

Jonah 1:3

Jonah tried to run away from the presence of Jehovah (YHWH). He went to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of Jehovah.

Jonah 1:10-17

Then the men were very afraid, and they asked: What is this you have done? For the men knew that he was running away from the presence of Jehovah, because he told them.

1 Corinthians 7:20

Each man should remain in the same condition in which he was called.

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever.

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