Proverbs 15:13 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 15:10–15

Read Proverbs 15:13 with 15:10–15. Read alone, “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: opens with “Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way” and develops the line through “and he that hateth reproof shall die”; by 15:15, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “All the days of the afflicted are evil” against “he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast”. Together the unit concentrates on life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, emotion, resilience, grief, and inward life within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 15:10–15 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, emotion, resilience, grief, and inward life, 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 “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance” against “by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken”.