27 Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.
Proverbs 24:27 Cross References - LITV
1 Kings 5:17-18
1 Kings 6:7
7 And when it was being built, the house was built of finished stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built.
Luke 14:28-30
28 For who of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has the things to finish;
29 that having laid a foundation, and not having strength to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him,
30 saying, This man began to build, and did not have strength to finish.