Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 10:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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Quick Meaning
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 10:1–5
Proverbs 10:1–5 is the required frame for Proverbs 10:5. Here the saying uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”; its collection setting controls whether the words describe a pattern, warning, invitation, or bounded command.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit needs this line's exact work: it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. That placement develops family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation while leaving exceptional cases visible.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth...”
In plain language: family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. In Proverbs 10:5, that bounded truth is expressed through “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Practice mutual listening, clear expectations, dependable care, and boundaries that protect every member's dignity and safety. For Proverbs 10:5, preserve the sequence: verse role (uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 10:1–5 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 10:1–5 — Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father:...Sources used for this Verse Lens
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 10:1–5, 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 10:1-10:5
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1103-1107, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 10:1–5
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