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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: Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. The simple in...
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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 14:1
Hebrew
חַכְמוֹת נָשִׁים בָּנְתָה בֵיתָהּ וְאִוֶּלֶת בְּיָדֶיהָ תֶהֶרְסֶֽנּוּ׃chakhemvot-nashiym-vanetah-veytah-ve'ivelet-veyadeyha-teheresenv
KJV: Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
AKJV: Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
ASV: Every wise woman buildeth her house;
YLT: Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
Exposition: Proverbs 14:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.'. 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 14:2
Hebrew
הוֹלֵךְ בְּיָשְׁרוֹ יְרֵא יְהוָה וּנְלוֹז דְּרָכָיו בּוֹזֵֽהוּ׃hvolekhe-veyashervo-yere'-yehvah-vnelvoz-derakhayv-vvozehv
KJV: He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
AKJV: He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
ASV: He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah;
YLT: Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 14:2Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 14:2
Proverbs 14:2 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: 'He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.'. 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 14:2
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- Proverbs 14:2
Exposition: Proverbs 14:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth 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 14:3
Hebrew
בְּֽפִי־אֱוִיל חֹטֶר גַּאֲוָה וְשִׂפְתֵי חֲכָמִים תִּשְׁמוּרֵֽם׃vefiy-'eviyl-choter-ga'avah-veshifetey-chakhamiym-tishemvrem
KJV: In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
AKJV: In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
ASV: In the mouth of the foolish is a rod forhispride;
YLT: In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:3Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:3
Verse 3 The mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride - The reproofs of such a person are ill-judged and ill-timed, and generally are conveyed in such language as renders them not only ineffectual, but displeasing, and even irritating.
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Proverbs 14:3
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.'. 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 14:4
Hebrew
בְּאֵין אֲלָפִים אֵבוּס בָּר וְרָב־תְּבוּאוֹת בְּכֹחַ שֽׁוֹר׃ve'eyn-'alafiym-'evvs-var-verav-tevv'vot-vekhocha-shvor
KJV: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
AKJV: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
ASV: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean;
YLT: Without oxen a stall is clean, And great is the increase by the power of the ox.
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Proverbs 14:4
Verse 4 But much increase is by the strength of the ox - The ox is the most profitable of all the beasts used in husbandry. Except merely for speed, he is almost in every respect superior to the horse. 1. He is longer lived. 2. Scarcely liable to any diseases. 3. He is steady, and always pulls fair in his gears. 4. He lives, fattens, and maintains his strength on what a horse will not eat, and therefore is supported on one third the cost. 5. His manure is more profitable. 6. When he is worn out in his labor his flesh is good for the nourishment of man, his horns of great utility, and his hide almost invaluable. It might be added, he is little or no expense in shoeing, and his gears are much more simple, and much less expensive, than those of the horse. In all large farms oxen are greatly to be preferred to horses. Have but patience with this most patient animal, and you will soon find that there is much increase by the strength and labor of the ox.
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Proverbs 14:4
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.'. 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 14:5
Hebrew
עֵד אֱמוּנִים לֹא יְכַזֵּב וְיָפִיחַ כְּזָבִים עֵד שָֽׁקֶר׃'ed-'emvniym-lo'-yekhazev-veyafiycha-khezaviym-'ed-shaqer
KJV: A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
AKJV: A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
ASV: A faithful witness will not lie;
YLT: A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 14:5Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 14:5
Proverbs 14:5 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: 'A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.'. 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 14:5
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- Proverbs 14:5
Exposition: Proverbs 14:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.'. 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 14:6
Hebrew
בִּקֶּשׁ־לֵץ חָכְמָה וָאָיִן וְדַעַת לְנָבוֹן נָקָֽל׃viqesh-letz-chakhemah-va'ayin-veda'at-lenavvon-naqal
KJV: A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
AKJV: A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understands.
ASV: A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not;
YLT: A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:6Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:6
Verse 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom - I believe the scorner means, in this book, the man that despises the counsel of God; the infidel. Such may seek wisdom; but he never can find it, because he does not seek it where it is to be found; neither in the teaching of God's Spirit, nor in the revelation of his will.
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Proverbs 14:6
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.'. 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 14:7
Hebrew
לֵךְ מִנֶּגֶד לְאִישׁ כְּסִיל וּבַל־יָדַעְתָּ שִׂפְתֵי־דָֽעַת׃lekhe-mineged-le'iysh-khesiyl-vval-yada'eta-shifetey-da'at
KJV: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
AKJV: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
ASV: Go into the presence of a foolish man,
YLT: Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:7Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:7
Verse 7 When thou perceivest not - the lips of knowledge - Instead of דעת daath, knowledge, several MSS. have שקר sheker, a lie. How this reading came I cannot conjecture. The meaning of the adage is plain: Never associate with a vain, empty fellow, when thou perceivest he can neither convey nor receive instruction.
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Proverbs 14:7
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.'. 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 14:8
Hebrew
חָכְמַת עָרוּם הָבִין דַּרְכּוֹ וְאִוֶּלֶת כְּסִילִים מִרְמָֽה׃chakhemat-'arvm-haviyn-darekhvo-ve'ivelet-khesiyliym-miremah
KJV: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
AKJV: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
ASV: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way;
YLT: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:8Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:8
Verse 8 Is to understand his way - Instead of הבין habin, to understand, הכין hachin, to Direct his way, is found in one MS. It makes a very good sense.
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Proverbs 14:8
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.'. 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 14:9
Hebrew
אֱוִלִים יָלִיץ אָשָׁם וּבֵין יְשָׁרִים רָצֽוֹן׃'eviliym-yaliytz-'asham-vveyn-yeshariym-ratzvon
KJV: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
AKJV: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.
ASV: A trespass-offering mocketh fools;
YLT: Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright--a pleasing thing.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:9Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:9
Verse 9 Fools make a mock at sin - And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the vengeance of an eternal fire. Some learned men by their criticisms have brought this verse into embarrassments, out of which they were not able to extricate it. I believe we shall not come much nearer the sense than our present version does.
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Proverbs 14:9
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.'. 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 14:10
Hebrew
לֵב יוֹדֵעַ מָרַּת נַפְשׁוֹ וּבְשִׂמְחָתוֹ לֹא־יִתְעָרַב זָֽר׃lev-yvode'a-marat-nafeshvo-vveshimechatvo-lo'-yite'arav-zar
KJV: The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
AKJV: The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle with his joy.
ASV: The heart knoweth its own bitterness;
YLT: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:10Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:10
Verse 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness - מרת נפשו morrath naphsho, "The bitterness of its soul." Under spiritual sorrow, the heart feels, the soul feels; all the animal nature feels and suffers. But when the peace of God is spoken to the troubled soul, the joy is indescribable; the whole man partakes of it. And a stranger to these religious feelings, to the travail of the soul, and to the witness of the Spirit, does not intermeddle with them; he does not understand them: indeed they may be even foolishness to him, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.'. 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 14:11
Hebrew
בֵּית רְשָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵד וְאֹהֶל יְשָׁרִים יַפְרִֽיחַ׃veyt-resha'iym-yishamed-ve'ohel-yeshariym-yaferiycha
KJV: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
AKJV: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
ASV: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown;
YLT: The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 14:11Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 14:11
Proverbs 14:11 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 house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.'. 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 14:11
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Proverbs 14:11
Exposition: Proverbs 14:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.'. 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 14:12
Hebrew
יֵשׁ דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר לִפְנֵי־אִישׁ וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ דַּרְכֵי־מָֽוֶת׃yesh-derekhe-yashar-lifeney-'iysh-ve'achariytah-darekhey-mavet
KJV: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
AKJV: There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
ASV: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man;
YLT: There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:12Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:12
Verse 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man - This may be his easily besetting sin, the sin of his constitution, the sin of his trade. Or it may be his own false views of religion: he may have an imperfect repentance, a false faith, a very false creed; and he may persuade himself that he is in the direct way to heaven. Many of the papists, when they were burning the saints of God in the flames at Smithfield, thought they were doing God service! And in the late Irish massacre, the more of the Protestants they piked to death, shot, or burnt, the more they believed they deserved of God's favor and their Church's gratitude. But cruelty and murder are the short road, the near way, to eternal perdition.
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- Smithfield
Exposition: Proverbs 14:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of 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 14:13
Hebrew
גַּם־בִּשְׂחוֹק יִכְאַב־לֵב וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ שִׂמְחָה תוּגָֽה׃gam-vishechvoq-yikhe'av-lev-ve'achariytah-shimechah-tvgah
KJV: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
AKJV: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
ASV: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful;
YLT: Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.
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Verse 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful - Many a time is a smile forced upon the face, when the heart is in deep distress. And it is a hard task to put on the face of mirth, when a man has a heavy heart.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.'. 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 14:14
Hebrew
מִדְּרָכָיו יִשְׂבַּע סוּג לֵב וּמֵעָלָיו אִישׁ טֽוֹב׃miderakhayv-yisheva'-svg-lev-vme'alayv-'iysh-tvov
KJV: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
AKJV: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
ASV: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways;
YLT: From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man--from his fruits.
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Verse 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways - 1. Who is the backslider? סוג sug. 1. The man who once walked in the ways of religion, but has withdrawn from them. 2. The man who once fought manfully against the world, the devil, and the flesh; but has retreated from the battle, or joined the enemy. 3. The man who once belonged to the congregation of the saints, but is now removed from them, and is set down in the synagogue of Satan. 2. But who is the backslider in Heart? 1. Not he who was surprised and overcome by the power of temptation, and the weakness of his own heart. 2. But he who drinks down iniquity with greediness. 3. Who gives cheerful way to the bent of his own nature, and now delights in fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and of the mind. 4. Who loves sin as before he loved godliness. 3. What are his own ways? Folly, sin, disappointment, and death; with the apprehension of the wrath of God, and the sharp twingings of a guilty conscience. 4. What is implied in being filled with his own ways? Having his soul saturated with folly, sin, and disappointment. At last ending here below in death, and then commencing an eternal existence where the fire is not quenched, and under the influence of that worm that never dieth. Alas, alas! who may abide when God doeth this? And a good man shall be satisfied from himself - 1. Who is the good man? (איש טוב ish tob). 1. The man whose heart is right with God, whose tongue corresponds to his heart, and whose actions correspond to both. 2. The man who is every thing that the sinner and backslider are not. 2. He shall be satisfied from himself - he shall have the testimony of his own conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he has his conversation among men. 3. He shall have God's Spirit to testify with his spirit that he is a child of God. He hath the witness in himself that he is born from above. The Spirit of God in his conscience, and the testimony of God in his Bible, show him that he belongs to the heavenly family. It is not from creeds or confessions of faith that he derives his satisfaction: he gets it from heaven, and it is sealed upon his heart.
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Proverbs 14:14
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- Satan
- Folly
- Alas
- Bible
Exposition: Proverbs 14:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.'. 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 14:15
Hebrew
פֶּתִי יַאֲמִין לְכָל־דָּבָר וְעָרוּם יָבִין לַאֲשֻׁרֽוֹ׃fetiy-ya'amiyn-lekhal-davar-ve'arvm-yaviyn-la'ashurvo
KJV: The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
AKJV: The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.
ASV: The simple believeth every word;
YLT: The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.
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Proverbs 14:15 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 simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.'. 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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Exposition: Proverbs 14:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.'. 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 14:16
Hebrew
חָכָם יָרֵא וְסָר מֵרָע וּכְסִיל מִתְעַבֵּר וּבוֹטֵֽחַ׃chakham-yare'-vesar-mera'-vkhesiyl-mite'aver-vvvotecha
KJV: A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
AKJV: A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
ASV: A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil;
YLT: The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
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Verse 16 A wise man feareth - He can never trust in himself, though he be satisfied from himself. He knows that his suffiency is of God; and he has that fear that causes him to depart from evil, which is a guardian to the love he feels. Love renders him cautious; the other makes him confident. His caution leads him from sin; his confidence leads him to God.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.'. 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 14:17
Hebrew
קְֽצַר־אַפַּיִם יַעֲשֶׂה אִוֶּלֶת וְאִישׁ מְזִמּוֹת יִשָּׂנֵֽא׃qetzar-'afayim-ya'asheh-'ivelet-ve'iysh-mezimvot-yishane'
KJV: He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
AKJV: He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
ASV: He that is soon angry will deal foolishly;
YLT: Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.
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Verse 17 He that is soon angry - קצר אפים ketsar appayim, "short of nostrils:" because, when a man is angry, his nose is contracted, and drawn up towards his eyes. Dealeth foolishly - He has no time for reflection; he is hurried on by his passions, speaks like a fool, and acts like a madman.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.'. 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 14:18
Hebrew
נָחֲלוּ פְתָאיִם אִוֶּלֶת וַֽעֲרוּמִים יַכְתִּרוּ דָֽעַת׃nachalv-feta'yim-'ivelet-va'arvmiym-yakhetirv-da'at
KJV: The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
AKJV: The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
ASV: The simple inherit folly;
YLT: The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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Proverbs 14:18
Proverbs 14:18 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 simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.'. 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 14:18
Exposition: Proverbs 14:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.'. 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 14:19
Hebrew
שַׁחוּ רָעִים לִפְנֵי טוֹבִים וּרְשָׁעִים עַֽל־שַׁעֲרֵי צַדִּֽיק׃shachv-ra'iym-lifeney-tvoviym-vresha'iym-'al-sha'arey-tzadiyq
KJV: The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
AKJV: The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
ASV: The evil bow down before the good;
YLT: The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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Verse 19 The evil bow before the good - They are almost constrained to show them respect; and the wicked, who have wasted their substance with riotous living, bow before the gates of the righteous - of benevolent men - begging a morsel of bread.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.'. 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 14:20
Hebrew
גַּם־לְרֵעֵהוּ יִשָּׂנֵא רָשׁ וְאֹהֲבֵי עָשִׁיר רַבִּֽים׃gam-lere'ehv-yishane'-rash-ve'ohavey-'ashiyr-raviym
KJV: The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
AKJV: The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.
ASV: The poor is hated even of his own neighbor;
YLT: Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.
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Verse 20 But the rich hath many friends - Many who speak to him the language of friendship; but if they profess friendship because he is rich, there is not one real friend among them. There is a fine saying of Cicero on this subject: Ut hirundines festivo tempore praesto sunt, frigore pulsae recedunt: ita falsi amici sereno tempore praesto sunt: simul atque fortunae hiemem viderint, evolant omnes - Lib. iv., ad Herenn. "They are like swallows, who fly off during the winter, and quit our cold climates; and do not return till the warm season: but as soon as the winter sets in, they are all off again." So Horace: - Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos:Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes. "As long as thou art prosperous, thou shalt have many friends: but who of them will regard thee when thou hast lost thy wealth?"
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- Lib
- Herenn
- So Horace
Exposition: Proverbs 14:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.'. 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 14:21
Hebrew
בָּז־לְרֵעֵהוּ חוֹטֵא וּמְחוֹנֵן עניים עֲנָוִים אַשְׁרָֽיו׃vaz-lere'ehv-chvote'-vmechvonen-'nyym-'anaviym-'asherayv
KJV: He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
AKJV: He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
ASV: He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth;
YLT: Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.
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Verse 21 He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth - To despise a man because he has some natural blemish is unjust, cruel, and wicked. He is not the author of his own imperfections; they did not occur through his fault or folly; and if he could, he would not retain them. It is, therefore, unjust and wicked to despise him for what is not his fault, but his misfortune. But he that hath mercy on the poor - Who reproaches no man for his poverty or scanty intellect, but divides his bread with the hungry - happy is he; the blessing of God, and of them that were ready to perish, shall come upon him.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.'. 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 14:22
Hebrew
הֲֽלוֹא־יִתְעוּ חֹרְשֵׁי רָע וְחֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת חֹרְשֵׁי טֽוֹב׃halvo'-yite'v-choreshey-ra'-vechesed-ve'emet-choreshey-tvov
KJV: Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
AKJV: Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
ASV: Do they not err that devise evil?
YLT: Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,
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Proverbs 14:22 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: 'Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.'. 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 14:22
Exposition: Proverbs 14:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.'. 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 14:23
Hebrew
בְּכָל־עֶצֶב יִהְיֶה מוֹתָר וּדְבַר־שְׂפָתַיִם אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃vekhal-'etzev-yiheyeh-mvotar-vdevar-shefatayim-'akhe-lemachesvor
KJV: In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
AKJV: In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.
ASV: In all labor there is profit;
YLT: In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.
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Verse 23 In all labor there is profit - If a man work at his trade, he gains by it; if he cultivate the earth, it will yield an increase; and in proportion as he labors, so will be his profit: but he who talks much labors little. And a man words is seldom a man of deeds. Less talk and more work, is one of our own ancient advices.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.'. 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 14:24
Hebrew
עֲטֶרֶת חֲכָמִים עָשְׁרָם אִוֶּלֶת כְּסִילִים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃'ateret-chakhamiym-'asheram-'ivelet-khesiyliym-'ivelet
KJV: The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
AKJV: The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
ASV: The crown of the wise is their riches;
YLT: The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.
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Verse 24 But the foolishness of fools is folly - The Targum reads, The honor of fools is folly. The fool, from his foolishness, produces acts of folly. This appears to be the meaning.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.'. 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 14:25
Hebrew
מַצִּיל נְפָשׁוֹת עֵד אֱמֶת וְיָפִחַ כְּזָבִים מִרְמָֽה׃matziyl-nefashvot-'ed-'emet-veyaficha-khezaviym-miremah
KJV: A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
AKJV: A true witness delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
ASV: A true witness delivereth souls;
YLT: A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
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Proverbs 14:25
Proverbs 14:25 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: 'A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.'. 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 14:25
Exposition: Proverbs 14:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.'. 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 14:26
Hebrew
בְּיִרְאַת יְהוָה מִבְטַח־עֹז וּלְבָנָיו יִהְיֶה מַחְסֶֽה׃veyire'at-yehvah-mivetach-'oz-vlevanayv-yiheyeh-macheseh
KJV: In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
AKJV: In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
ASV: In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence;
YLT: In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.
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Proverbs 14:26
Verse 26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence - From this, and from genuine Christian experience, we find that the fear of God is highly consistent with the strongest confidence in his mercy and goodness.
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Proverbs 14:26
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.'. 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 14:27
Hebrew
יִרְאַת יְהוָה מְקוֹר חַיִּים לָסוּר מִמֹּקְשֵׁי מָֽוֶת׃yire'at-yehvah-meqvor-chayiym-lasvr-mimoqeshey-mavet
KJV: The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
AKJV: The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
ASV: The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life,
YLT: The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
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Proverbs 14:27
Verse 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life - מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, the vein of lives. Another allusion to the great aorta which carries the blood from the heart to all the extremities of the body. Of this phrase, and the tree of lives, Solomon is particularly fond. See on Pro 4:23 (note); Pro 10:12 (note).
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of 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 14:28
Hebrew
בְּרָב־עָם הַדְרַת־מֶלֶךְ וּבְאֶפֶס לְאֹם מְחִתַּת רָזֽוֹן׃verav-'am-haderat-melekhe-vve'efes-le'om-mechitat-razvon
KJV: In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
AKJV: In the multitude of people is the king’s honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
ASV: In the multitude of people is the king’s glory;
YLT: In the multitude of a people is the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.
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Proverbs 14:28
Verse 28 In the multitude of people - It is the interest of every state to promote marriage by every means that is just and prudent; and to discourage, disgrace, and debase celibacy; to render bachelors incapable, after a given age, of all public employments: and to banish nunneries and monasteries from all parts of their dominions; - they have ever, from their invention, contributed more to vice than virtue; and are positively point blank against the law of God.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.'. 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 14:29
Hebrew
אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם רַב־תְּבוּנָה וּקְצַר־רוּחַ מֵרִים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃'erekhe-'afayim-rav-tevvnah-vqetzar-rvcha-meriym-'ivelet
KJV: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
AKJV: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
ASV: He that is slow to anger is of great understanding;
YLT: Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
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Verse 29 That is hasty of spirit - קצר רוח ketsar ruach, "the short of spirit;" one that is easily irritated; and, being in a passion, he is agitated so as to be literally short of breath. Here put in opposition to ארך אפים erech appayim, long of nostrils; see on Pro 14:17 (note); and of the same import with St. Paul's μακροθυμια, longsuffering, longmindedness. See on Eph 4:2 (note).
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Eph 4:2
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- St
Exposition: Proverbs 14:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.'. 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 14:30
Hebrew
חַיֵּי בְשָׂרִים לֵב מַרְפֵּא וּרְקַב עֲצָמוֹת קִנְאָֽה׃chayey-veshariym-lev-marefe'-vreqav-'atzamvot-qine'ah
KJV: A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
AKJV: A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
ASV: A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh;
YLT: A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.
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Proverbs 14:30
Verse 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh - A healthy state of the blood, and a proper circulation of that stream of life, is the grand cause, in the hand of God, of health and longevity. If the heart be diseased, life cannot be long continued.
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.'. 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 14:31
Hebrew
עֹשֵֽׁק דָּל חֵרֵף עֹשֵׂהוּ וּמְכַבְּדוֹ חֹנֵן אֶבְיֽוֹן׃'osheq-dal-cheref-'oshehv-vmekhavedvo-chonen-'eveyvon
KJV: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
AKJV: He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
ASV: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;
YLT: An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
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Proverbs 14:31
Verse 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker - Because the poor, or comparatively poor, are, in the order of God, a part of the inhabitants of the earth; and every man who loves God will show mercy to the poor, for with this God is peculiarly delighted. The poor have we ever with us, for the excitement and exercise of those benevolent, compassionate, and merciful feelings, without which men had been but little better than brutes.
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Proverbs 14:31
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Exposition: Proverbs 14:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.'. 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 14:32
Hebrew
בְּֽרָעָתוֹ יִדָּחֶה רָשָׁע וְחֹסֶה בְמוֹתוֹ צַדּֽ͏ִיק׃vera'atvo-yidacheh-rasha'-vechoseh-vemvotvo-tzadiyq
KJV: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
AKJV: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
ASV: The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing;
YLT: In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
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Proverbs 14:32
Verse 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness - He does not leave life cheerfully. Poor soul! Thou hast no hope in the other world, and thou leavest the present with the utmost regret! Thou wilt not go off; but God will drive thee. But the righteous hath hope in his death - He rejoiceth to depart and be with Christ: to him death is gain; he is not reluctant to go - he flies at the call of God.
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Proverbs 14:32
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Christ
Exposition: Proverbs 14:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his 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 14:33
Hebrew
בְּלֵב נָבוֹן תָּנוּחַ חָכְמָה וּבְקֶרֶב כְּסִילִים תִּוָּדֵֽעַ׃velev-navvon-tanvcha-chakhemah-vveqerev-khesiyliym-tivade'a
KJV: Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
AKJV: Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding: but that which is in the middle of fools is made known.
ASV: Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding;
YLT: In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 14:33Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 14:33
Proverbs 14:33 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: 'Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.'. 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 14:33
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- Proverbs 14:33
Exposition: Proverbs 14:33 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made 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 14:34
Hebrew
צְדָקָה תְרֽוֹמֵֽם־גּוֹי וְחֶסֶד לְאֻמִּים חַטָּֽאת׃tzedaqah-tervomem-gvoy-vechesed-le'umiym-chata't
KJV: Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
AKJV: Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
ASV: Righteousness exalteth a nation;
YLT: Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.
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Verse 34 But sin is a reproach to any people - I am satisfied this is not the sense of the original, וחסד לאמים חטאת vechesed leummim chattath; which would be better rendered, And mercy is a sin-offering for the people. The Vulgate has, Miseros autem facit populos peccatum, "sin makes the people wretched." Ελασσονουσι δε φυλας ἁμαρτιαι; "But sins lessen the tribes." - Septuagint. So also the Syriac and Arabic. The plain meaning of the original seems to be, A national disposition to mercy appears in the sight of God as a continual sin-offering. Not that it atones for the sin of the people; but, as a sin-offering is pleasing in the sight of the God of mercy, so is a merciful disposition in a nation. This view of the verse is consistent with the purest doctrines of free grace. And what is the true sense of the words, we should take at all hazards and consequences: we shall never trench upon a sound creed by a literal interpretation of God's words. No nation has more of this spirit than the British nation. It is true, we have too many sanguinary laws; but the spirit of the people is widely different. If any one will contend for the common version, he has my consent; and I readily agree in the saying, Sin is the reproach of any people. It is the curse and scandal of man. Though I think what I have given is the true meaning of the text.
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Proverbs 14:34
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- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Arabic
Exposition: Proverbs 14:34 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.'. 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 14:35
Hebrew
רְֽצוֹן־מֶלֶךְ לְעֶבֶד מַשְׂכִּיל וְעֶבְרָתוֹ תִּהְיֶה מֵבִֽישׁ׃retzvon-melekhe-le'eved-mashekhiyl-ve'everatvo-tiheyeh-meviysh
KJV: The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
AKJV: The king’s favor is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causes shame.
ASV: The king’s favor is toward a servant that dealeth wisely;
YLT: The favour of a king is to a wise servant, And an object of his wrath is one causing shame!
Commentary WitnessProverbs 14:35Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 14:35
Verse 35 The king's favor is toward a wise servant - The king should have an intelligent man for his minister; a man of deep sense, sound judgment, and of a feeling, merciful disposition. He who has not the former will plunge the nation into difficulties; and he who has not the latter will embark her in disastrous wars. Most wars are occasioned by bad ministers, men of blood, who cannot be happy but in endeavoring to unchain the spirit of discord. Let every humane heart pray, Lord, scatter thou the people who delight in war! Amen - so be it. Selah!
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ray
- Lord
Exposition: Proverbs 14:35 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him 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.
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- Proverbs 14:1
- Proverbs 14:2
- Proverbs 14:3
- Proverbs 14:4
- Proverbs 14:5
- Proverbs 14:6
- Proverbs 14:7
- Proverbs 14:8
- Proverbs 14:9
- Proverbs 14:10
- Proverbs 14:11
- Proverbs 14:12
- Proverbs 14:13
- Proverbs 14:14
- Proverbs 14:15
- Proverbs 14:16
- Proverbs 14:17
- Proverbs 14:18
- Proverbs 14:19
- Proverbs 14:20
- Proverbs 14:21
- Proverbs 14:22
- Proverbs 14:23
- Proverbs 14:24
- Proverbs 14:25
- Proverbs 14:26
- Proverbs 14:27
- Proverbs 14:28
- Eph 4:2
- Proverbs 14:29
- Proverbs 14:30
- Proverbs 14:31
- Proverbs 14:32
- Proverbs 14:33
- Proverbs 14:34
- Proverbs 14:35
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Smithfield
- Satan
- Folly
- Alas
- Bible
- Lib
- Herenn
- So Horace
- Targum
- St
- Christ
- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Arabic
- Ray
- Lord
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Matthew
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Mark
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Luke
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John
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Acts
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Romans
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1 Corinthians
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2 Corinthians
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Galatians
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Ephesians
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Philippians
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Colossians
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1 Thessalonians
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2 Thessalonians
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1 Timothy
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2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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1 Peter
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2 Peter
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1 John
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2 John
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3 John
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Jude
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Revelation
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Commentary Witness
Proverbs 14:1
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 14:1
Source lane
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