Proverbs 24:27 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

²⁷ Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.

¹⁷ (5:31) And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone. ¹⁸ (5:32) And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

⁷ For 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. -

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it? ²⁹ Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.