John Trapp on Proverbs 24:27

Verſ. 27. Prepare thy work without, &c.] God would have all his to be not good men only, but good husbands too; to order their affairs with diſcretion,Lib. 18. cap. 1 and to take their fitteſt opportunities for diſpatch of houſhold buſineſſes. Pliny hath a ſaying to like ſenſe with this, Aedificandum, ſaith he, conſito agro, & tunc quoque cunctanter, Let building alone till thy field be tilled, vined, planted, &c.