Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 10:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found” against “a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 10:12–17
Proverbs 10:13 belongs to “Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.” It uses contrastive parallelism to place “In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found” against “a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding”. Read the adjacent sayings and the collection heading before moving from observation to application.
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found” against “a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 10:12–17.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 10:12–17 — Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sinsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 10:12–17, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 10:12-10:17
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