Proverbs 13:16 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 13:16–19

Read Proverbs 13:16 with 13:16–19. Read alone, “Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses contrastive parallelism to place “Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge” against “a fool layeth open his folly”; by 13:19, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul” against “it is abomination to fools to depart from evil”. Together the unit concentrates on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, truthful testimony, honest measures, and integrity, wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 13:16–19 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, truthful testimony, honest measures, and integrity, wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, 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 “Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge” against “a fool layeth open his folly”.