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Proverbs 14:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “The wicked is driven away in his wickedness” against “the righteous hath hope in his death”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 14:31–35
Read Proverbs 14:32 with 14:31–35. Read alone, “The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker” against “he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor”; by 14:35, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “The king’s favour is toward a wise servant” against “his wrath is against him that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “The wicked is driven away in his wickedness” against “the righteous hath hope in his death”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 14:31–35.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 14:31–35 — Justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation — He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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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 14:31–35, 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 14:31-14:35
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