27 Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Proverbs 24:27 Cross References - MKJV
1 Kings 5:17-18
1 Kings 6:7
7 And when it was being built, the house was built of 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 which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it;
29 lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him,
30 saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.