Proverbs 27:18
16 restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
19 As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
- KJV
- Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
- WEB
- Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
- ASV
- Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.
- DARBY
- Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.
- BLB
- One keeping watch over a fig tree will eat its fruit, and the one guarding his master will be honored.
- ÅB
- Den som passer sitt fikentre, får spise dets frukt, og den som tar vare på sin herre, blir æret.
- OTB
- Den som steller et fikentre vil spise dets frukt, og den som ser etter sin herre vil bli æret.
- B1930
- Den som passer sitt fikentre, får ete dets frukt, og den som tar vare på sin herre, blir æret.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
Read in context2 Timothy 2:6
The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:12
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
Read in contextLuke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
Read in contextJohn 12:26
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Read in contextMatthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
Read in contextLuke 12:43–44
Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
Read in contextLuke 19:17
His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
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