Bible in Basic English
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
— Proverbs 27:23-1964, Bible in Basic English
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. ”
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.