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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.

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  • Primary Witness Text: The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erret...
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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.

Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom — present at creation, delighting before God — is cited by early Church Fathers as a window into the eternal Son. The book's practical ethics (sexual integrity, speech, work, generosity) embody a worldview in which creation's design is the source of moral instruction.

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Proverbs 10:1

Hebrew
מִשְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹה בֵּן חָכָם יְשַׂמַּח־אָב וּבֵן כְּסִיל תּוּגַת אִמּֽוֹ׃

misheley-shelomoh-ven-chakham-yeshamach-'av-vven-khesiyl-tvgat-'imvo

KJV: The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

AKJV: The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

ASV: The proverbs of Solomon.

YLT: Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

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It is impossible to give summaries of such chapters as these, where almost every verse contains a separate subject. Our common version not being able to exhibit the contents as usual, simply says, "From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations upon moral virtues, and their opposite vices." In general the wise man states in this chapter the difference between the wise and the foolish, the righteous and the wicked, the diligent and the idle. He speaks also of love and hatred, of the good and the evil tongue, or of the slanderer and the peace-maker. Verse 1 The proverbs of Solomon - Some ancient MSS. of the Vulgate have Proverbiorum liber secundus, "The second book of the Proverbs." The preceding nine chapters can only be considered as an introduction, if indeed they may be said to make even a part, of the proverbs of Solomon, which appear to commence only at the tenth chapter. A wise son maketh a glad father - The parallels in this and several of the succeeding chapters are those which Bishop Lowth calls the antithetic; when two lines correspond with each other by an opposition of terms and sentiments; when the second is contrasted with the first; sometimes in expression, sometimes in sense only. Accordingly the degrees of antithesis are various; from an exact contraposition of word to word, through a whole sentence, down to a general disparity, with something of a contrariety in the two propositions, as: - A wise son rejoiceth in his father. But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Where every word has its opposite; for the terms father and mother are, as the logicians say, relatively opposite.

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  • Vulgate
  • Proverbs
  • Solomon

Exposition: Proverbs 10:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:2

Hebrew
לֹא־יוֹעִילוּ אוֹצְרוֹת רֶשַׁע וּצְדָקָה תַּצִּיל מִמָּֽוֶת׃

lo'-yvo'iylv-'votzervot-resha'-vtzedaqah-tatziyl-mimavet

KJV: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

AKJV: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.

ASV: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing;

YLT: Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

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Verse 2 Treasures of wickedness - Property gained by wicked means. Delivered from death - Treasures gained by robbery often bring their possessors to an untimely death; but those gained by righteous dealing bring with them no such consequences.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:3

Hebrew
לֹֽא־יַרְעִיב יְהוָה נֶפֶשׁ צַדִּיק וְהַוַּת רְשָׁעִים יֶהְדֹּֽף׃

lo'-yare'iyv-yehvah-nefesh-tzadiyq-vehavat-resha'iym-yehedof

KJV: The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

AKJV: The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.

ASV: Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish;

YLT: Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

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Verse 3 But he casteth away the substance of the wicked - But instead of רשעים reshaim, the wicked, בוגדים bogedim, hypocrites, or perfidious persons, is the reading of twelve or fourteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and some editions; but it is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions. The righteous have God for their feeder; and because of his infinite bounty, they can never famish for want of the bread of life. On the contrary, the wicked are often, in the course of his providence, deprived of the property of which they make a bad use.

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Proverbs 10:3

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  • Ovid

Exposition: Proverbs 10:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:4

Hebrew
רָאשׁ עֹשֶׂה כַף־רְמִיָּה וְיַד חָרוּצִים תַּעֲשִֽׁיר׃

ra'sh-'osheh-khaf-remiyah-veyad-charvtziym-ta'ashiyr

KJV: He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

AKJV: He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

ASV: He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand;

YLT: Poor is he who is working--a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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Verse 4 He becometh poor - God has ordered, in the course of his providence, that he who will not work shall not eat. And he always blesses the work of the industrious man.

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  • Ovid

Exposition: Proverbs 10:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:5

Hebrew
אֹגֵר בַּקַּיִץ בֵּן מַשְׂכִּיל נִרְדָּם בַּקָּצִיר בֵּן מֵבִֽישׁ׃

'oger-vaqayitz-ven-mashekhiyl-niredam-vaqatziyr-ven-meviysh

KJV: He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

AKJV: He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

ASV: He that gathereth in summer is a wise son;

YLT: Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

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Verse 5 He that gathereth in summer - All the work of the field should be done in the season suitable to it. If summer and harvest be neglected, in vain does a man expect the fruits of autumn.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:6

Hebrew
בְּרָכוֹת לְרֹאשׁ צַדִּיק וּפִי רְשָׁעִים יְכַסֶּה חָמָֽס׃

verakhvot-lero'sh-tzadiyq-vfiy-resha'iym-yekhaseh-chamas

KJV: Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

AKJV: Blessings are on the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

ASV: Blessings are upon the head of the righteous;

YLT: Blessings are for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

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Verse 6 Violence covereth the mouth of the wicked - As blessings shall be on the head of the just, so the violence of the wicked shall cover their face with shame and confusion. Their own violent dealings shall be visited upon them. The mouth forsoth of unpitious men wickidnesse covereth. - Old MS. Bible. "The forehead of the ungodly is past shame, and presumptuous." - Coverdale.

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  • Bible
  • Coverdale

Exposition: Proverbs 10:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:7

Hebrew
זֵכֶר צַדִּיק לִבְרָכָה וְשֵׁם רְשָׁעִים יִרְקָֽב׃

zekher-tzadiyq-liverakhah-veshem-resha'iym-yireqav

KJV: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

AKJV: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

ASV: The memory of the righteous is blessed;

YLT: The remembrance of the righteous is for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.

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Verse 7 The memory of the just is blessed - Or, is a blessing. But the name of the wicked shall rot - This is another antithesis; but there are only two antithetic terms, for memory and name are synonymous - Lowth. The very name of the wicked is as offensive as putrid carrion.

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  • Or
  • Lowth

Exposition: Proverbs 10:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:8

Hebrew
חֲכַם־לֵב יִקַּח מִצְוֺת וֶאֱוִיל שְׂפָתַיִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃

chakham-lev-yiqach-mitzevt-ve'eviyl-shefatayim-yilavet

KJV: The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

AKJV: The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

ASV: The wise in heart will receive commandments;

YLT: The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

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Verse 8 A prating fool shall fall - This clause is repeated in the tenth verse. The wise man will receive the commandment: but the shallow blabbing fool shall be cast down. See Pro 10:10.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:9

Hebrew
הוֹלֵךְ בַּתֹּם יֵלֶךְ בֶּטַח וּמְעַקֵּשׁ דְּרָכָיו יִוָּדֵֽעַ׃

hvolekhe-vatom-yelekhe-vetach-vme'aqesh-derakhayv-yivade'a

KJV: He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

AKJV: He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

ASV: He that walketh uprightly walketh surely;

YLT: Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

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Verse 9 He that walketh uprightly - The upright man is always safe; he has not two characters to support; he goes straight forward, and is never afraid of detection, because he has never been influenced by hypocrisy or deceit.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:10

Hebrew
קֹרֵֽץ עַיִן יִתֵּן עַצָּבֶת וֶאֱוִיל שְׂפָתַיִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃

qoretz-'ayin-yiten-'atzavet-ve'eviyl-shefatayim-yilavet

KJV: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

AKJV: He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

ASV: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow;

YLT: Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

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Verse 10 He that winketh with the eye - Instead of the latter clause, on which see Pro 10:8, the Septuagint has, ὁ δε ελεγχων μετα παῥρησιας ειρηνοποιει· "but he that reproveth with freedom, maketh peace." This is also the reading of the Syriac and Arabic. A faithful open reproving of sin is more likely to promote the peace of society than the passing it by slightly, or taking no notice of it; for if the wicked turn to God at the reproof, the law of peace will soon be established in his heart, and the law of kindness will flow from his tongue.

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  • Septuagint
  • Arabic

Exposition: Proverbs 10:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:11

Hebrew
מְקוֹר חַיִּים פִּי צַדִּיק וּפִי רְשָׁעִים יְכַסֶּה חָמָֽס׃

meqvor-chayiym-fiy-tzadiyq-vfiy-resha'iym-yekhaseh-chamas

KJV: The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

AKJV: The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

ASV: The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life;

YLT: A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

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Verse 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life - מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, is the vein of lives; an allusion to the great aorta, which conveys the blood from the heart to every art of the body. The latter clause of this verse is the same with that of Pro 10:6.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:12

Hebrew
שִׂנְאָה תְּעוֹרֵר מְדָנִים וְעַל כָּל־פְּשָׁעִים תְּכַסֶּה אַהֲבָֽה׃

shine'ah-te'vorer-medaniym-ve'al-khal-fesha'iym-tekhaseh-'ahavah

KJV: Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

AKJV: Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.

ASV: Hatred stirreth up strifes;

YLT: Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

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Verse 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes - It seeks for occasions to provoke enmity. It delights in broils. On the contrary, love conciliates; removes aggravations; puts the best construction on every thing; and pours water, not oil, upon the flame.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:13

Hebrew
בְּשִׂפְתֵי נָבוֹן תִּמָּצֵא חָכְמָה וְשֵׁבֶט לְגֵו חֲסַר־לֵֽב׃

veshifetey-navvon-timatze'-chakhemah-veshevet-legev-chasar-lev

KJV: In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

AKJV: In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

ASV: In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found;

YLT: In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

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Verse 13 A rod is for the back of him - He that can learn, and will not learn, should be made to learn. The rod is a most powerful instrument of knowledge. Judiciously applied, there is a lesson of profound wisdom in every twig.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:14

Hebrew
חֲכָמִים יִצְפְּנוּ־דָעַת וּפִֽי־אֱוִיל מְחִתָּה קְרֹבָֽה׃

chakhamiym-yitzefenv-da'at-vfiy-'eviyl-mechitah-qerovah

KJV: Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

AKJV: Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

ASV: Wise men lay up knowledge;

YLT: The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

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Verse 14 Wise men lay up knowledge - They keep secret every thing that has a tendency to disturb domestic or public peace; but the foolish man blabs all out, and produces much mischief. Think much, speak little, and always think before you speak. This will promote your own peace and that of your neighbor.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:15

Hebrew
הוֹן עָשִׁיר קִרְיַת עֻזּוֹ מְחִתַּת דַּלִּים רֵישָֽׁם׃

hvon-'ashiyr-qireyat-'uzvo-mechitat-daliym-reysham

KJV: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

AKJV: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

ASV: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city:

YLT: The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

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Verse 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city - Behold a mystery in providence; there is not a rich man on earth but becomes such by means of the poor! Property comes from the labor of the poor, and the king himself is served of the field. How unjust, diabolically so, is it to despise or oppress those by whose labor all property is acquired! The destruction of the poor is their poverty - A man in abject poverty never arises out of this pit. They have no nucleus about which property may aggregate. The poet spoke well: - Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi. "They rarely emerge from poverty, whose exertions are cramped by want at home."

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  • Ovid

Exposition: Proverbs 10:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:16

Hebrew
פְּעֻלַּת צַדִּיק לְחַיִּים תְּבוּאַת רָשָׁע לְחַטָּֽאת׃

fe'ulat-tzadiyq-lechayiym-tevv'at-rasha'-lechata't

KJV: The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

AKJV: The labor of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

ASV: The labor of the righteoustendethto life;

YLT: The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

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Verse 16 The labor of the righteous - The good man labors that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object. The fruit of the wicked to sin - This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:17

Hebrew
אֹרַח לְחַיִּים שׁוֹמֵר מוּסָר וְעוֹזֵב תּוֹכַחַת מַתְעֶֽה׃

'orach-lechayiym-shvomer-mvsar-ve'vozev-tvokhachat-mate'eh

KJV: He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

AKJV: He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof errs.

ASV: He is in the way of life that heedeth correction;

YLT: A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

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Verse 17 He is in the way of life - The truly religious man accumulates knowledge that he may the better know how to live to God, and do most good among men.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:18

Hebrew
מְכַסֶּה שִׂנְאָה שִׂפְתֵי־שָׁקֶר וּמוֹצִא דִבָּה הוּא כְסִֽיל׃

mekhaseh-shine'ah-shifetey-shaqer-vmvotzi'-divah-hv'-khesiyl

KJV: He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

AKJV: He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

ASV: He that hideth hatred is of lying lips;

YLT: Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

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Verse 18 He that hideth - This is a common case. How many, when full of resentment, and deadly hatred, meditating revenge and cruelty, and sometimes even murder, have pretended that they thought nothing of the injury they had sustained; had passed by the insult, etc.! Thus lying lips covered the malevolence of a wicked heart.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:19

Hebrew
בְּרֹב דְּבָרִים לֹא יֶחְדַּל־פָּשַׁע וְחֹשֵׂךְ שְׂפָתָיו מַשְׂכִּֽיל׃

verov-devariym-lo'-yechedal-fasha'-vechoshekhe-shefatayv-mashekhiyl

KJV: In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

AKJV: In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

ASV: In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression;

YLT: In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

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Verse 19 In the multitude of words - It is impossible to speak much, and yet speak nothing but truth; and injure no man's character in the mean while.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:20

Hebrew
כֶּסֶף נִבְחָר לְשׁוֹן צַדִּיק לֵב רְשָׁעִים כִּמְעָֽט׃

khesef-nivechar-leshvon-tzadiyq-lev-resha'iym-khime'at

KJV: The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

AKJV: The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

ASV: The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver:

YLT: The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked--as a little thing.

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Verse 20 The heart of the wicked is little worth - כמעט kimat, is like little or nothing; or is like dross, while the tongue of the just is like silver. A sinner's heart is worth nothing, and is good for nothing; and yet because it is his most hidden part, he vaunts of its honesty, goodness, etc.! Yes, yes; it is very honest and good, only the devil is in it! that is all.

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  • Yes

Exposition: Proverbs 10:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:21

Hebrew
שִׂפְתֵי צַדִּיק יִרְעוּ רַבִּים וֶֽאֱוִילִים בַּחֲסַר־לֵב יָמֽוּתוּ׃

shifetey-tzadiyq-yire'v-raviym-ve'eviyliym-vachasar-lev-yamvtv

KJV: The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

AKJV: The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

ASV: The lips of the righteous feed many;

YLT: The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

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Proverbs 10:21 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.

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  • Proverbs 10:21

Exposition: Proverbs 10:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:22

Hebrew
בִּרְכַּת יְהוָה הִיא תַעֲשִׁיר וְלֹֽא־יוֹסִף עֶצֶב עִמָּֽהּ׃

virekhat-yehvah-hiy'-ta'ashiyr-velo'-yvosif-'etzev-'imah

KJV: The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

AKJV: The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

ASV: The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich;

YLT: The blessing of Jehovah--it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

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Verse 22 The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich - Whatever we receive in the way of providence, has God's blessing in it, and will do us good. Cares, troubles, and difficulties come with all property not acquired in this way; but God's blessing gives simple enjoyment, and levies no tax upon the comfort.

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  • Ovid
  • Lord
  • Cares

Exposition: Proverbs 10:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:23

Hebrew
כִּשְׂחוֹק לִכְסִיל עֲשׂוֹת זִמָּה וְחָכְמָה לְאִישׁ תְּבוּנָֽה׃

khishechvoq-likhesiyl-'ashvot-zimah-vechakhemah-le'iysh-tevvnah

KJV: It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

AKJV: It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

ASV: It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness;

YLT: To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

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Verse 23 It is a sport to a fool to do mischief - What a millstone weight of iniquity hangs about the necks of most of the jesters. facetious and witty people! "How many lies do they tell in jest, to go to the devil in earnest!"

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:24

Hebrew
מְגוֹרַת רָשָׁע הִיא תְבוֹאֶנּוּ וְתַאֲוַת צַדִּיקִים יִתֵּֽן׃

megvorat-rasha'-hiy'-tevvo'env-veta'avat-tzadiyqiym-yiten

KJV: The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

AKJV: The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

ASV: The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him;

YLT: The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

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Verse 24 The fear of the wicked - The wicked is full of fears and alarms; and all that he has dreaded and more than he has dreaded, shall come upon him. The righteous is always desiring more of the salvation of God, and God will exceed even his utmost desires.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:25

Hebrew
כַּעֲבוֹר סוּפָה וְאֵין רָשָׁע וְצַדִּיק יְסוֹד עוֹלָֽם׃

kha'avvor-svfah-ve'eyn-rasha'-vetzadiyq-yesvod-'volam

KJV: As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

AKJV: As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

ASV: When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more;

YLT: As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

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Verse 25 As the whirlwind passeth - As tornadoes that sweep every thing away before them; so shall the wrath of God sweep away the wicked; it shall leave him neither branch nor root. But the righteous, being built on the eternal foundation, יסוד עולם yesod olam, shall never be shaken.

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:26

Hebrew
כַּחֹמֶץ ׀ לַשִּׁנַּיִם וְכֶעָשָׁן לָעֵינָיִם כֵּן הֶעָצֵל לְשֹׁלְחָֽיו׃

khachometz- -lashinayim-vekhe'ashan-la'eynayim-khen-he'atzel-lesholechayv

KJV: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

AKJV: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

ASV: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,

YLT: As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the slothful to those sending him.

Commentary WitnessProverbs 10:26
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Verse 26 As vinegar to the teeth - The acid softening and dissolving the alkali of the bone, so as to impair their texture, and render them incapable of masticating; and as smoke affects the eyes, irritating their tender vessels, so as to give pain and prevent distinct vision; so the sluggard, the lounging, thriftless messenger, who never returns in time with the desired answer.

Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.

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Proverbs 10:26

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:27

Hebrew
יִרְאַת יְהוָה תּוֹסִיף יָמִים וּשְׁנוֹת רְשָׁעִים תִּקְצֹֽרְנָה׃

yire'at-yehvah-tvosiyf-yamiym-vshenvot-resha'iym-tiqetzorenah

KJV: The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

AKJV: The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

ASV: The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days;

YLT: The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 10:27
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Proverbs 10:27

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Proverbs 10:27 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.

Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.

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Proverbs 10:27

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  • Proverbs 10:27

Exposition: Proverbs 10:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:28

Hebrew
תּוֹחֶלֶת צַדִּיקִים שִׂמְחָה וְתִקְוַת רְשָׁעִים תֹּאבֵֽד׃

tvochelet-tzadiyqiym-shimechah-vetiqevat-resha'iym-to'ved

KJV: The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

AKJV: The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

ASV: The hope of the righteousshall begladness;

YLT: The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

Commentary WitnessProverbs 10:28
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Proverbs 10:28

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Verse 28 The expectation of the wicked shall perish - A wicked man is always imposing on himself by the hope of God's mercy and final happiness; and he continues hoping, till he dies without receiving that mercy which alone would entitle him to that glory.

Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.

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Proverbs 10:28

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:29

Hebrew
מָעוֹז לַתֹּם דֶּרֶךְ יְהוָה וּמְחִתָּה לְפֹעֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

ma'voz-latom-derekhe-yehvah-vmechitah-lefo'aley-'aven

KJV: The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

AKJV: The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

ASV: The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright;

YLT: The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

Commentary WitnessProverbs 10:29
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Proverbs 10:29

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Verse 29 The way of the Lord is strength - In the path of obedience the upright man ever finds his strength renewed; the more he labors the stronger he grows. The same sentiment as that in Isa 40:31.

Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.

Canonical locus

Proverbs 10:29

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Biblical cross-references named in the witness

  • Isa 40:31

Exposition: Proverbs 10:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:30

Hebrew
צַדִּיק לְעוֹלָם בַּל־יִמּוֹט וּרְשָׁעִים לֹא יִשְׁכְּנוּ־אָֽרֶץ׃

tzadiyq-le'volam-val-yimvot-vresha'iym-lo'-yishekhenv-'aretz

KJV: The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

AKJV: The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

ASV: The righteous shall never be removed;

YLT: The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.

Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 10:30
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Commentary Witness (Generated)

Proverbs 10:30

Generated editorial synthesis

Proverbs 10:30 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.

Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.

Canonical locus

Proverbs 10:30

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Biblical cross-references named in the witness

  • Proverbs 10:30

Exposition: Proverbs 10:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:31

Hebrew
פִּֽי־צַדִּיק יָנוּב חָכְמָה וּלְשׁוֹן תַּהְפֻּכוֹת תִּכָּרֵֽת׃

fiy-tzadiyq-yanvv-chakhemah-vleshvon-tahefukhvot-tikharet

KJV: The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

AKJV: The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the fraudulent tongue shall be cut out.

ASV: The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom;

YLT: The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

Commentary WitnessProverbs 10:31
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Proverbs 10:31

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Verse 31 The froward tongue shall be cut out - This probably alludes to the punishment of cutting out the tongue for blasphemy, treasonable speeches, profane swearing, or such like. The tunge of schrewis schal perishen. - Old MS. Bible. Were the tongue of every shrew or scold to be extracted, we should soon have much less noise in the world.

Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.

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Proverbs 10:31

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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness

  • Bible

Exposition: Proverbs 10:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Proverbs 10:32

Hebrew
שִׂפְתֵי צַדִּיק יֵדְעוּן רָצוֹן וּפִי רְשָׁעִים תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃

shifetey-tzadiyq-yede'vn-ratzvon-vfiy-resha'iym-tahefukhvot

KJV: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

AKJV: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.

ASV: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable;

YLT: The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

Commentary WitnessProverbs 10:32
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Proverbs 10:32

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Verse 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable - And what they believe to be most pleasing and most profitable, that they speak, but the wicked man knows as well what is perverse, and that he speaketh forth. As the love of God is not in his heart, so the law of kindness is not on his lips.

Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.

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Proverbs 10:32

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Exposition: Proverbs 10:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes
  • Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
  • Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
  • Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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Canonical references surfaced in commentary

  • Proverbs 10:1
  • Proverbs 10:2
  • Proverbs 10:3
  • Proverbs 10:4
  • Proverbs 10:5
  • Proverbs 10:6
  • Proverbs 10:7
  • Proverbs 10:8
  • Proverbs 10:9
  • Proverbs 10:10
  • Proverbs 10:11
  • Proverbs 10:12
  • Proverbs 10:13
  • Proverbs 10:14
  • Proverbs 10:15
  • Proverbs 10:16
  • Proverbs 10:17
  • Proverbs 10:18
  • Proverbs 10:19
  • Proverbs 10:20
  • Proverbs 10:21
  • Proverbs 10:22
  • Proverbs 10:23
  • Proverbs 10:24
  • Proverbs 10:25
  • Proverbs 10:26
  • Proverbs 10:27
  • Proverbs 10:28
  • Isa 40:31
  • Proverbs 10:29
  • Proverbs 10:30
  • Proverbs 10:31
  • Proverbs 10:32

Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary

  • Vulgate
  • Proverbs
  • Solomon
  • Ovid
  • Bible
  • Coverdale
  • Or
  • Lowth
  • Septuagint
  • Arabic
  • Yes
  • Lord
  • Cares
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New Testament History

Acts

Rendered chapters 1–28 are mapped to the public reader path for Acts. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 28 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Acts

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New Testament Letters

Romans

Rendered chapters 1–16 are mapped to the public reader path for Romans. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 16 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Romans

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New Testament Letters

1 Corinthians

Rendered chapters 1–16 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Corinthians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 16 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 1 Corinthians

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New Testament Letters

2 Corinthians

Rendered chapters 1–13 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Corinthians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 13 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 2 Corinthians

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New Testament Letters

Galatians

Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for Galatians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 6 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Galatians

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New Testament Letters

Ephesians

Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for Ephesians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 6 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Ephesians

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New Testament Letters

Philippians

Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Philippians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 4 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Philippians

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New Testament Letters

Colossians

Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Colossians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 4 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Colossians

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New Testament Letters

1 Thessalonians

Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Thessalonians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 5 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 1 Thessalonians

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New Testament Letters

2 Thessalonians

Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Thessalonians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 3 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 2 Thessalonians

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New Testament Letters

1 Timothy

Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Timothy. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 6 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 1 Timothy

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New Testament Letters

2 Timothy

Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Timothy. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 4 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 2 Timothy

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New Testament Letters

Titus

Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Titus. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 3 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Titus

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New Testament Letters

Philemon

Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for Philemon. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 1 rendered chapter
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Philemon

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New Testament Letters

Hebrews

Rendered chapters 1–13 are mapped to the public reader path for Hebrews. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 13 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Hebrews

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New Testament Letters

James

Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for James. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 5 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for James

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New Testament Letters

1 Peter

Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Peter. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 5 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 1 Peter

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New Testament Letters

2 Peter

Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Peter. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 3 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 2 Peter

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New Testament Letters

1 John

Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 5 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 1 John

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New Testament Letters

2 John

Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 1 rendered chapter
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 2 John

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New Testament Letters

3 John

Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for 3 John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 1 rendered chapter
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for 3 John

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New Testament Letters

Jude

Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for Jude. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 1 rendered chapter
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Jude

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New Testament Apocalypse

Revelation

Rendered chapters 1–22 are mapped to the public reader path for Revelation. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.

  • Coverage: 22 rendered chapters
  • Current public use: chapter reader path for Revelation

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What this explorer shows today

The public reader has book-by-book chapter entry points across the 66-book canon. Deeper corpus and provenance details stay on the supporting Bible Data shelves.

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