THEOSISProverbs 27:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
כְּ֭צִפּוֹר נוֹדֶ֣דֶת מִן־קִנָּ֑הּ כֵּֽן־אִ֝֗ישׁ נוֹדֵ֥ד מִמְּקוֹמֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jonah 1:10And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.)
- Jonah 1:17
- Isa 16:2And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.
- Prov 21:16A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.
- Gen 16:6And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.
- Gen 16:8He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.
- 1 Cor 7:20Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.
- Jonah 1:3And Jonah rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord,