Proverbs 11:26 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 11:24–27

Read Proverbs 11:26 with 11:24–27. Read alone, “He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses two-part parallelism to place “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth” beside “and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it…”; by 11:27, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour” against “he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him”. Together the unit concentrates on wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, generosity, neighbor-care, and material responsibility, life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 11:24–27 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, generosity, neighbor-care, and material responsibility, life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him” against “blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it”.