Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Prepare thy work without - Do nothing without a plan. In winter prepare seed, implements, tackle, geers, etc., for seed-time and harvest.
i. e., Get an estate into good order before erecting a house on it. To "build a house" may, however, be equivalent (compare Exodus 1:21; Deuteronomy 25:9; Ruth 4:11) to "founding a family;" and the words a warning against a hasty and imprudent marriage. The young man is taught to cultivate his land before he has to bear the burdens of a family. Further, in a spiritual sense, the "field" may be the man's outer common work, the "house" the dwelling-place of his higher life. He must do the former faithfully in order to attain the latter. Neglect in one is fatal to the other. Compare Luke 16:10-11.