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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: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. ...
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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 23:1
Hebrew
כִּֽי־תֵשֵׁב לִלְחוֹם אֶת־מוֹשֵׁל בִּין תָּבִין אֶת־אֲשֶׁר לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃khiy-teshev-lilechvom-'et-mvoshel-viyn-taviyn-'et-'asher-lefaneykha
KJV: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
AKJV: When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
ASV: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
YLT: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,
Exposition: Proverbs 23:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:'. 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 23:2
Hebrew
וְשַׂמְתָּ שַׂכִּין בְּלֹעֶךָ אִם־בַּעַל נֶפֶשׁ אָֽתָּה׃veshameta-shakhiyn-velo'ekha-'im-va'al-nefesh-'atah
KJV: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
AKJV: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
ASV: And put a knife to thy throat,
YLT: And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.
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Verse 2 Put a knife to thy throat - Repress thy appetite, and do not be incontinent of speech. Eat, drink, and converse, under a check.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.'. 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 23:3
Hebrew
אַל־תִּתְאָו לְמַטְעַמּוֹתָיו וְהוּא לֶחֶם כְּזָבִֽים׃'al-tite'av-lemate'amvotayv-vehv'-lechem-khezaviym
KJV: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
AKJV: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
ASV: Be not desirous of his dainties;
YLT: Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:3Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:3
Proverbs 23:3 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: 'Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.'. 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 23:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.'. 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 23:4
Hebrew
אַל־תִּיגַע לְֽהַעֲשִׁיר מִֽבִּינָתְךָ חֲדָֽל׃'al-tiyga'-leha'ashiyr-miviynatekha-chadal
KJV: Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
AKJV: Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
ASV: Weary not thyself to be rich;
YLT: Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
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Verse 4 Labour not to be rich - Let not this be thy object. Labour to provide things honest in the sight of God and all men; and if thou get wealth, do not forget the poor, else God's curse will be a canker even in thy gold. Cease from thine own wisdom - בינתך binathecha, thy own understanding or prudence. The world says, "Get rich if thou canst, and how thou canst." Rem, si possis, recte; si non, quocunque modo rem; "Get a fortune honestly if thou canst; but if not, get one at all events." This is the devil's counsel, and well it is followed; but Solomon says, and God says, "Cease from thine own counsel." Thou hast an immortal soul, and shalt shortly appear before God. Lay up treasure for heaven, and be rich towards God.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own 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 23:5
Hebrew
התעוף הֲתָעִיף עֵינֶיךָ בּוֹ וְֽאֵינֶנּוּ כִּי עָשֹׂה יַעֲשֶׂה־לּוֹ כְנָפַיִם כְּנֶשֶׁר ועיף יָעוּף הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ht'vf-hata'iyf-'eyneykha-vvo-ve'eynenv-khiy-'ashoh-ya'asheh-lvo-khenafayim-khenesher-v'yf-ya'vf-hashamayim
KJV: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
AKJV: Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
ASV: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
YLT: For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:5Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:5
Proverbs 23:5 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: 'Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.'. 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 23:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.'. 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 23:6
Hebrew
אַל־תִּלְחַם אֶת־לֶחֶם רַע עָיִן וְאַל־תתאו תִּתְאָיו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃'al-tilecham-'et-lechem-ra'-'ayin-ve'al-tt'v-tite'ayv-lemate'amotayv
KJV: Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
AKJV: Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
ASV: Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
YLT: Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
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Proverbs 23:6
Verse 6 Of him that hath an evil eye - Never eat with a covetous or stingy man; if he entertains you at his own expense, he grudges every morsel you put in your mouth. This is well marked by the wise man in the next verse: "Eat and drink, saith he: but his heart is not with thee."
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:'. 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 23:7
Hebrew
כִּי ׀ כְּמוֹ־שָׁעַר בְּנַפְשׁוֹ כֶּן־הוּא אֱכֹל וּשְׁתֵה יֹאמַר לָךְ וְלִבּוֹ בַּל־עִמָּֽךְ׃khiy- -khemvo-sha'ar-venafeshvo-khen-hv'-'ekhol-vsheteh-yo'mar-lakhe-velivvo-val-'imakhe
KJV: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
AKJV: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
ASV: For as he thinketh within himself, so is he:
YLT: For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:7Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:7
Proverbs 23:7 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: 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.'. 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 23:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.'. 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 23:8
Hebrew
פִּֽתְּךָ־אָכַלְתָּ תְקִיאֶנָּה וְשִׁחַתָּ דְּבָרֶיךָ הַנְּעִימִֽים׃fitekha-'akhaleta-teqiy'enah-veshichata-devareykha-hane'iymiym
KJV: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
AKJV: The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
ASV: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
YLT: Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:8Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:8
Proverbs 23:8 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 morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.'. 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 23:8
Exposition: Proverbs 23:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.'. 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 23:9
Hebrew
בְּאָזְנֵי כְסִיל אַל־תְּדַבֵּר כִּֽי־יָבוּז לְשֵׂכֶל מִלֶּֽיךָ׃ve'azeney-khesiyl-'al-tedaver-khiy-yavvz-leshekhel-mileykha
KJV: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
AKJV: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
ASV: Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
YLT: In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:9Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:9
Proverbs 23:9 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: 'Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.'. 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 23:9
Exposition: Proverbs 23:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.'. 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 23:10
Hebrew
אַל־תַּסֵּג גְּבוּל עוֹלָם וּבִשְׂדֵי יְתוֹמִים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃'al-taseg-gevvl-'volam-vvishedey-yetvomiym-'al-tavo'
KJV: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
AKJV: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
ASV: Remove not the ancient landmark;
YLT: Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
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Verse 10 Remove not the old landmark - See Pro 22:28 (note). Enter not into the fields of the fatherless - Take nothing that belongs to an orphan. The heaviest curse of God will fall upon them that do so.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:'. 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 23:11
Hebrew
כִּֽי־גֹאֲלָם חָזָק הֽוּא־יָרִיב אֶת־רִיבָם אִתָּֽךְ׃khiy-go'alam-chazaq-hv'-yariyv-'et-riyvam-'itakhe
KJV: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
AKJV: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
ASV: For their Redeemer is strong;
YLT: For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
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Verse 11 For their redeemer is mighty - גאלם goalam, their kinsman. The word means the person who has a right, being next in blood, to redeem a field or estate, alienated from the family, to avenge the blood of a murdered relative, by slaying the murderer; and to take to wife a brother's widow, who had died childless, in order to preserve the family. The strength here mentioned refers to the justness of his claim, the extent of his influence, and the powerful abettors of such a cause. But in reference to the orphans here mentioned, they having no kinsman, God takes up, vindicates, and avenges their cause.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.'. 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 23:12
Hebrew
הָבִיאָה לַמּוּסָר לִבֶּךָ וְאָזְנֶךָ לְאִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת׃haviy'ah-lamvsar-livekha-ve'azenekha-le'imerey-da'at
KJV: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
AKJV: Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
ASV: Apply thy heart unto instruction,
YLT: Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
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Proverbs 23:12 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: 'Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of 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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Exposition: Proverbs 23:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words 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 23:13
Hebrew
אַל־תִּמְנַע מִנַּעַר מוּסָר כִּֽי־תַכֶּנּוּ בַשֵּׁבֶט לֹא יָמֽוּת׃'al-timena'-mina'ar-mvsar-khiy-takhenv-vashevet-lo'-yamvt
KJV: Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
AKJV: Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
ASV: Withhold not correction from the child;
YLT: Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
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Proverbs 23:13
Proverbs 23:13 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: 'Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.'. 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 23:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.'. 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 23:14
Hebrew
אַתָּה בַּשֵּׁבֶט תַּכֶּנּוּ וְנַפְשׁוֹ מִשְּׁאוֹל תַּצִּֽיל׃'atah-vashevet-takhenv-venafeshvo-mishe'vol-tatziyl
KJV: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
AKJV: You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
ASV: Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
YLT: Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
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Verse 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod - A proper correction of children was a favourite point of discipline with Solomon. We have already seen how forcibly he speaks on this subject. See the notes on the places referred to in 1Cor 5:5 (note).
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.'. 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 23:15
Hebrew
בְּנִי אִם־חָכַם לִבֶּךָ יִשְׂמַח לִבִּי גַם־אָֽנִי׃veniy-'im-chakham-livekha-yishemach-liviy-gam-'aniy
KJV: My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
AKJV: My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
ASV: My son, if thy heart be wise,
YLT: My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
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Proverbs 23:15
Proverbs 23:15 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: 'My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.'. 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 23:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.'. 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 23:16
Hebrew
וְתַעְלֹזְנָה כִלְיוֹתָי בְּדַבֵּר שְׂפָתֶיךָ מֵישָׁרִֽים׃veta'elozenah-khileyvotay-vedaver-shefateykha-meyshariym
KJV: Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
AKJV: Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
ASV: Yea, my heart will rejoice,
YLT: And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
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Proverbs 23:16 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: 'Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.'. 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 23:16
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- Yea
Exposition: Proverbs 23:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.'. 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 23:17
Hebrew
אַל־יְקַנֵּא לִבְּךָ בַּֽחַטָּאִים כִּי אִם־בְּיִרְאַת־יְהוָה כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃'al-yeqane'-livekha-vachata'iym-khiy-'im-veyire'at-yehvah-khal-hayvom
KJV: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
AKJV: Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
ASV: Let not thy heart envy sinners;
YLT: Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But--in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
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Proverbs 23:17
Proverbs 23:17 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: 'Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.'. 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 23:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.'. 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 23:18
Hebrew
כִּי אִם־יֵשׁ אַחֲרִית וְתִקְוָתְךָ לֹא תִכָּרֵֽת׃khiy-'im-yesh-'achariyt-vetiqevatekha-lo'-tikharet
KJV: For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
AKJV: For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
ASV: For surely there is a reward;
YLT: For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
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Verse 18 Surely there is an end - יש אחרית yesh acharith, there is another life; "and thy expectation" of the enjoyment of a blessed immortality "shall not be cut off." The Old MS. Bible reads thus: For thou schalt hab hop in the last: and thin abiiding schal not ben taken awei. "For the ende is not yet come; and thy patient abydinge shal not be in vayne." - Coverdale.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.'. 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 23:19
Hebrew
שְׁמַע־אַתָּה בְנִי וַחֲכָם וְאַשֵּׁר בַּדֶּרֶךְ לִבֶּֽךָ׃shema'-'atah-veniy-vachakham-ve'asher-vaderekhe-livekha
KJV: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
AKJV: Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
ASV: Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
YLT: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
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Proverbs 23:19 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: 'Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.'. 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 23:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.'. 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 23:20
Hebrew
אַל־תְּהִי בְסֹֽבְאֵי־יָיִן בְּזֹלֲלֵי בָשָׂר לָֽמוֹ׃'al-tehiy-vesove'ey-yayin-vezolaley-vashar-lamvo
KJV: Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
AKJV: Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
ASV: Be not among winebibbers,
YLT: Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
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Verse 20 Be not among winebibbers - There is much of this chapter spent in giving directions concerning eating, drinking, and entertainments in general. 1. he pupil is directed relative to the manner in which he is to conduct himself in his visits to the tables of the rich and great. 2. Relative to the covetous and his intercourse with them. And 3. To public entertainnlents, where there were generally riot and debauch. The reasons, says Calmet, which induced the wise man to give these directions were, 1. The useless expense. 2. The loss of time. 3. The danger from bad company. And 4. The danger of contracting irregular habits, and of being induced to lead a voluptuous and effeminate life.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:'. 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 23:21
Hebrew
כִּי־סֹבֵא וְזוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵשׁ וּקְרָעִים תַּלְבִּישׁ נוּמָֽה׃khiy-sove'-vezvolel-yivaresh-vqera'iym-taleviysh-nvmah
KJV: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
AKJV: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
ASV: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;
YLT: For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
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Proverbs 23:21 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: 'For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.'. 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 23:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.'. 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 23:22
Hebrew
שְׁמַע לְאָבִיךָ זֶה יְלָדֶךָ וְאַל־תָּבוּז כִּֽי־זָקְנָה אִמֶּֽךָ׃shema'-le'aviykha-zeh-yeladekha-ve'al-tavvz-khiy-zaqenah-'imekha
KJV: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
AKJV: Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
ASV: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
YLT: Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
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Verse 22 Despise not thy mother when she is old - A very necessary caution, as very old women are generally helpless, useless, and burdensome: yet these circumstances do not at all lessen the child's duty. And this duty is strengthened by the Divine command here given.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.'. 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 23:23
Hebrew
אֱמֶת קְנֵה וְאַל־תִּמְכֹּר חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר וּבִינָֽה׃'emet-qeneh-ve'al-timekhor-chakhemah-vmvsar-vviynah
KJV: Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
AKJV: Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
ASV: Buy the truth, and sell it not;
YLT: Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
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Verse 23 Buy the truth - Acquire the knowledge of God at all events; and in order to do this, too much pains, industry, and labor cannot be expended. And sell it not - When once acquired, let no consideration deprive thee of it. Cleave to and guard it, even at the risk of thy life. Coverdale translates: "Labour for to get the treuth; sell not awaye wissdome."
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and 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 23:24
Hebrew
גול גִּיל יגול יָגִיל אֲבִי צַדִּיק יולד וְיוֹלֵד חָכָם וישמח־יִשְׂמַח־בּֽוֹ׃gvl-giyl-ygvl-yagiyl-'aviy-tzadiyq-yvld-veyvoled-chakham-vyshmch-yishemach-vvo
KJV: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
AKJV: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.
ASV: The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
YLT: The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
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Proverbs 23:24 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 father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of 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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Exposition: Proverbs 23:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of 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 23:25
Hebrew
יִֽשְׂמַח־אָבִיךָ וְאִמֶּךָ וְתָגֵל יֽוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ׃yishemach-'aviykha-ve'imekha-vetagel-yvoladetekha
KJV: Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
AKJV: Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
ASV: Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
YLT: Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
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Proverbs 23:25
Proverbs 23:25 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: 'Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.'. 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 23:25
Exposition: Proverbs 23:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.'. 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 23:26
Hebrew
תְּנָֽה־בְנִי לִבְּךָ לִי וְעֵינֶיךָ דְּרָכַי תרצנה תִּצֹּֽרְנָה׃tenah-veniy-livekha-liy-ve'eyneykha-derakhay-trtznh-titzorenah
KJV: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
AKJV: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
ASV: My son, give me thy heart;
YLT: Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
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Verse 26 My son, give me thine heart - This is the speech of God to every human soul; give thy affections to God, so as to love him with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength. And let thine eyes observe my ways - Be obedient to me in all things. My son, thou believest that I Am, and that I Am the Fountain of all good. Give me thy heart; it is I alone who can make thee happy. Observe my ways - follow me; do what is right in my sight. This exhortation contains three words: Believe, Love, Obey! This is the sum of God's counsels to every child of man.
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- Am
- Believe
- Love
Exposition: Proverbs 23:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.'. 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 23:27
Hebrew
כִּֽי־שׁוּחָה עֲמֻקָּה זוֹנָה וּבְאֵר צָרָה נָכְרִיָּֽה׃khiy-shvchah-'amuqah-zvonah-vve'er-tzarah-nakheriyah
KJV: For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
AKJV: For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
ASV: For a harlot is a deep ditch;
YLT: For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:27Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:27
Proverbs 23:27 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: 'For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.'. 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 23:27
Exposition: Proverbs 23:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.'. 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 23:28
Hebrew
אַף־הִיא כְּחֶתֶף תֶּֽאֱרֹב וּבוֹגְדִים בְּאָדָם תּוֹסִֽף׃'af-hiy'-khechetef-te'erov-vvvogediym-ve'adam-tvosif
KJV: She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
AKJV: She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
ASV: Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber,
YLT: She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
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Verse 28 Increaseth the transgressors among men - More iniquity springs from this one source of evil, than from any other cause in the whole system of sin. Women and strong drink cause many millions to transgress.
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Proverbs 23:28
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.'. 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 23:29
Hebrew
לְמִי אוֹי לְמִי אֲבוֹי לְמִי מדונים מִדְיָנִים ׀ לְמִי שִׂיחַ לְמִי פְּצָעִים חִנָּם לְמִי חַכְלִלוּת עֵינָֽיִם׃lemiy-'voy-lemiy-'avvoy-lemiy-mdvnym-mideyaniym- -lemiy-shiycha-lemiy-fetza'iym-chinam-lemiy-chakhelilvt-'eynayim
KJV: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
AKJV: Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
ASV: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?
YLT: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Commentary WitnessProverbs 23:29Quoted commentary witness
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Verse 29 Who hath wo? - I believe Solomon refers here to the natural effects of drunkenness. And perhaps אוי oi, which we translate wo, and אבוי aboi, which we translate sorrow, are mere natural sounds or vociferations that take place among drunken men, either from illness, or the nauseating effects of too much liquor. As to contentions among such, babblings on a variety of subjects, which they neither understand nor are fit to discuss; wounds, got by falling out about nothing; and red eyes, bloodshotten with excess of drink, or black and blue eyes with fighting; - these are such common and general effects of these compotations, as naturally to follow from them. So that they who tarry long at wine, and use mixed wine to make it more inebriating, (see Pro 9:2), are the very persons who are most distinguished by the circumstances enumerated above. I need scarcely add, that by wine and mixed wine all inebriating liquors are to be understood.
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?'. 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 23:30
Hebrew
לַֽמְאַחֲרִים עַל־הַיָּיִן לַבָּאִים לַחְקֹר מִמְסָֽךְ׃lame'achariym-'al-hayayin-lava'iym-lacheqor-mimesakhe
KJV: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
AKJV: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
ASV: They that tarry long at the wine;
YLT: Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:30Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:30
Proverbs 23:30 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: 'They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.'. 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 23:30
Exposition: Proverbs 23:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.'. 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 23:31
Hebrew
אַל־תֵּרֶא יַיִן כִּי יִתְאַדָּם כִּֽי־יִתֵּן בכיס בַּכּוֹס עֵינוֹ יִתְהַלֵּךְ בְּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃'al-tere'-yayin-khiy-yite'adam-khiy-yiten-vkhys-vakhvos-'eynvo-yitehalekhe-vemeyshariym
KJV: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
AKJV: Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
ASV: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
YLT: See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
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Proverbs 23:31
Verse 31 Look not thou upon the wine - Let neither the color, the odour, the sparkling, etc., of the wine, when poured out, induce thee to drink of it. However good and pure it may be, it will to thee be a snare, because thou art addicted to it, and hast no self-command.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
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Proverbs 23:31
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.'. 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 23:32
Hebrew
אַחֲרִיתוֹ כְּנָחָשׁ יִשָּׁךְ וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִי יַפְרִֽשׁ׃'achariytvo-khenachash-yishakhe-vkhetzife'oniy-yaferish
KJV: At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
AKJV: At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
ASV: At the last it biteth like a serpent,
YLT: Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 23:32Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 23:32
Proverbs 23:32 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: 'At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.'. 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 23:32
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Proverbs 23:32
Exposition: Proverbs 23:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.'. 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 23:33
Hebrew
עֵינֶיךָ יִרְאוּ זָרוֹת וְלִבְּךָ יְדַבֵּר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃'eyneykha-yire'v-zarvot-velivekha-yedaver-tahefukhvot
KJV: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
AKJV: Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
ASV: Thine eyes shall behold strange things,
YLT: Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 23:33Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 23:33
Verse 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women - Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these effects well: - He that is drunken may his mother kill,Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins; Is outlawed by himself. All kinds of illDid, with his liquor, slide into his veins. The drunkard forfeits man; and doth divestAll worldly right, save what he hath by beast. Herbert's Poems - The Church Porch.
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Proverbs 23:33
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Mr
- The Church Porch
Exposition: Proverbs 23:33 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.'. 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 23:34
Hebrew
וְהָיִיתָ כְּשֹׁכֵב בְּלֶב־יָם וּכְשֹׁכֵב בְּרֹאשׁ חִבֵּֽל׃vehayiyta-kheshokhev-velev-yam-vkheshokhev-vero'sh-chivel
KJV: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
AKJV: Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.
ASV: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,
YLT: And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 23:34Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 23:34
Verse 34 Lieth down in the midst of the sea - He is utterly regardless of life; which is expressed very forcibly by one in a state of intoxication ascending the shrouds, clasping the mast-head, and there falling asleep; whence, in a few moments, he must either fall down upon the deck and be dashed to pieces, or fall into the sea and be drowned. Reader, if thou be a man given to this appetite, put a knife to thy throat.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
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Proverbs 23:34
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Reader
Exposition: Proverbs 23:34 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.'. 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 23:35
Hebrew
הִכּוּנִי בַל־חָלִיתִי הֲלָמוּנִי בַּל־יָדָעְתִּי מָתַי אָקִיץ אוֹסִיף אֲבַקְשֶׁנּוּ עֽוֹד׃hikhvniy-val-chaliytiy-halamvniy-val-yada'etiy-matay-'aqiytz-'vosiyf-'avaqeshenv-'vod
KJV: They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
AKJV: They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
ASV: They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt;
YLT: `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake--I seek it yet again!'
Commentary WitnessProverbs 23:35Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 23:35
Verse 35 They have stricken me - Though beat and abused, full of pain, and exhibiting a frightful figure; yet so drunk was he, as to be insensible who had struck him: still, after all this abuse and disgrace, he purposes to embrace the next opportunity of repeating his excesses! Sin makes a man contemptible in life, miserable in death, and wretched to all eternity. Is it not strange, then, that men should Love it?
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Proverbs 23:35
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Exposition: Proverbs 23:35 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'. 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 23:1
- Proverbs 23:2
- Proverbs 23:3
- Proverbs 23:4
- Proverbs 23:5
- Proverbs 23:6
- Proverbs 23:7
- Proverbs 23:8
- Proverbs 23:9
- Proverbs 23:10
- Proverbs 23:11
- Proverbs 23:12
- Proverbs 23:13
- 1Cor 5:5
- Proverbs 23:14
- Proverbs 23:15
- Proverbs 23:16
- Proverbs 23:17
- Proverbs 23:18
- Proverbs 23:19
- Proverbs 23:20
- Proverbs 23:21
- Proverbs 23:22
- Proverbs 23:23
- Proverbs 23:24
- Proverbs 23:25
- Proverbs 23:26
- Proverbs 23:27
- Proverbs 23:28
- Proverbs 23:29
- Proverbs 23:30
- Proverbs 23:31
- Proverbs 23:32
- Proverbs 23:33
- Proverbs 23:34
- Proverbs 23:35
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Eat
- Ovid
- Rem
- Solomon
- Yea
- Coverdale
- Calmet
- Am
- Believe
- Love
- Mr
- The Church Porch
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Joel
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Amos
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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 23:1
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 23:1
Source lane
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