27 Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Proverbs 24:27 Cross References - UKJV
1 Kings 5:17-18
1 Kings 6:7
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Luke 14:28-30
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29 Lest lest by any means, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.