Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 14:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens with “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly” and develops the line through “and a man of wicked devices is hated”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 14:15–19
Read Proverbs 14:17 with 14:15–19. Read alone, “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The simple believeth every word” against “the prudent man looketh well to his going”; by 14:19, it uses two-part parallelism to place “The evil bow before the good” beside “and the wicked at the gates of the righteous”. Together the unit concentrates on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, planning, counsel, providence, and limited control within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse opens with “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly” and develops the line through “and a man of wicked devices is hated”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 14:15–19.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 14:15–19 — Wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception — The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 14:15–19, 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 14:15-14:19
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