You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Here is, I. A command given us to be diligent in our callings. It is directed to husbandmen and shepherds, and those that deal in cattle, but it is to be extended to all other lawful callings; whatever our business is, within doors or without, we must apply our minds to it. This command intimates, 1.
Commenting on Proverbs 27:23-27
household--literally, "house," the family (Act 16:15; Co1 1:16). Next: Proverbs Chapter 28
Pro 27:23-27 An exhortation to rural industry, and particularly to the careful tending of cattle for breeding, forms the conclusion of the foregoing series of proverbs, in which we cannot always discern an intentional grouping. It is one of the Mashal-odes spoken of vol. i. p. 12. It consists of 11 = 4 + 7 lines.
Commenting on Proverbs 27:23-27