Proverbs 27:23 Parallel Translations
NASB: Know well the condition of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds; (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Be fully aware of the condition of your flock, and pay close attention to your herds.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
ASV: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, And look well to thy herds:
BBE: Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
DBY: Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
ERV: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds:
JPS: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds;
WBS: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
WEB: Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
YLT: Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,
Proverbs 27:23 Cross References
XREF:Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock."

Ezekiel 34:12 "As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

John 10:3 "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 27:23 Flock - Flocks and herds are here put for all possessions, because anciently they were the chief part of a man's riches.
MHC: 27:15,16. The contentions of a neighbour may be like a sharp shower, troublesome for a time; the contentions of a wife are like constant rain. 17. We are cautioned to take heed whom we converse with. And directed to have in view, in conversation, to make one another wiser and better. 18. Though a calling be laborious and despised, yet those who keep to it, will find there is something to be got by it. God is a Master who has engaged to honour those who serve him faithfully. 19. One corrupt heart is like another; so are sanctified hearts: the former bear the same image of the earthly, the latter the same image of the heavenly. Let us carefully watch our own hearts, comparing them with the word of God. 20. Two things are here said to be never satisfied, death and sin. The appetites of the carnal mind for profit or pleasure are always desiring more. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord, are satisfied in him, and shall for ever be so. 21. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is a man tried by praising him. 22. Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change. 23-27. We ought to have some business to do in this world, and not to live in idleness, and not to meddle with what we do not understand. We must be diligent and take pains. Let us do what we can, still the world cannot be secured to us, therefore we must choose a more lasting portion; but by the blessing of God upon our honest labours, we may expect to enjoy as much of earthly blessings as is good for us.
CONC:Acquainted Appearance Attention Care Careful Condition Diligent Droves Face Flock Flocks Heart Herds Pay State
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