箴言 27:27

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

山羊奶足夠作你的食物，也足夠作你一家的食物，並且足夠維持你眾婢女的生活。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
并 有 母 山 羊 奶 够 你 吃 ， 也 够 你 的 家 眷 吃 ， 且 够 养 你 的 婢 女 。

Contextual Overview

²³ Be sure you know how your sheep are doing, and pay attention to the condition of your cattle. ²⁴ Riches will not go on forever, nor do governments go on forever. ²⁵ Bring in the hay, and let the new grass appear. Gather the grass from the hills. ²⁶ Make clothes from the lambs' wool, and sell some goats to buy a field. ²⁷ There will be plenty of goat's milk to feed you and your family and to make your servant girls healthy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

enough: Proverbs 30:8, Proverbs 30:9, Matthew 6:33

maintenance: Heb. life

Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:11 - tilleth 1 Corinthians 9:7 - eateth not of the milk

Cross-References

Genesis 26:12
Isaac planted seed in that land, and that year he gathered a great harvest. The Lord blessed him very much,

Genesis 27:6
She said to her son Jacob, "Listen, I heard your father saying to your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:7
‘Kill an animal and prepare some tasty food for me to eat. Then I will bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.'

Genesis 27:11
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth!

Genesis 27:12
If my father touches me, he will know I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me but will place a curse on me because I tried to trick him."

Genesis 27:13
So Rebekah said to him, "If your father puts a curse on you, I will accept the blame. Just do what I said. Go get the goats for me."

Genesis 27:14
So Jacob went out and got two goats and brought them to his mother, and she cooked them in the special way Isaac enjoyed.

Psalms 65:10
You send rain to the plowed fields; you fill the rows with water. You soften the ground with rain, and then you bless it with crops.

Song of Solomon 2:13
There are young figs on the fig trees, and the blossoms on the vines smell sweet. Get up, my darling; let's go away, my beautiful one."

Hebrews 6:7
Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain. The land produces a good crop for those who work it, and it receives God's blessings.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food,.... The word for "goats", in Proverbs 27:26, signifies he goats, which were sold to buy fields, pay servants or rent, or purchase the necessaries of life; and this here signifies she goats, which were kept for their milk; and which was daily used for food in some countries, and is still in use for the same purpose in some parts of our kingdoms; and in medicine it has been preferred by some physicians above others, next to the milk of women w: and the diligent husbandman is promised not only plenty of this his own eating, at least a sufficiency of it, but for his family;

for the food of thy household; his wife and children:

and [for] maintenance for thy maidens: or "the lives" x of them, on which they should live; for, though menservants might require strong meat yet the maidens might live upon milk; besides, Athenaeus y speaks of most delicious cheese made of goats' milk, called "tromilicus". The design of the whole is to show that a man diligent in his business shall have a sufficiency for himself and his family; and, though it may be but the meaner sort of food and clothing he may get, yet, having food and raiment, he should therewith be content.

w Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 28. c. 9. Vid. Scheuehzer. Physic, Sacr. vol. 5. p. 1016. x וחיים "vitas", Montanus; "ad vitam", Gejerus; "life" is often put for "bread"; or for that by which life is maintained, both in Greek and Latin writers; so βιος, in Hesiod. Opera, l. 1. v. 31, 328. and "vita", in Plaut. Stichus, Act. 3. Sc. 2. v. 9. Trinum, Act. 2. Sc. 4. v. 76. y Deipnosoph. l. 14. c. 22. p. 658. see also l. 1. c. 8. p 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.

Proverbs 27:23

The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”

Proverbs 27:25

Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:27. Goats' milk enough for thy food — ללחמך lelachmecha, "to thy bread;" for they ate the bread and supped the milk to assist mastication, and help deglutition. And it seems that bread, with goats' milk, was the general article of food for the master and his family; and for the servant maids who assisted in the household work, and performed the operations required in the dairy.

The reader who wishes to see these maxims detailed and illustrated at large, may consult the writers De Re Rustica, where he will find much curious information.