attend well to the life lived in it

English Art/Literary Religion About the book of Proverbs

Prov 24:27 Proverbs encourages sensible preparation before building a house, so that one may ***attend well to the life lived in it***.

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Charles Davis

Spain

Native in English & English

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make it well suited to / meet the requirements of the way people will live in it

"Attend to" is being used here in the sense of attending to needs or wants, that is, anticipating what is required and providing for it.

Peer comment(s):

agree	Yasutomo Kanazawa 3 mins
	Thanks!
agree	Robert Forstag : Rather convoluted English, but this is certainly the sense of it. 2 hrs
	Awkwardly expressed, I agree. Thanks, Robert.
agree	philgoddard : This whole document is written in weird language. 2 hrs
	Yes, it is pretty strange. Thanks, Phil.

4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you!"