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Proverbs 15:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright” against “the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 15:1–4
Read Proverbs 15:2 with 15:1–4. Read alone, “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses contrastive parallelism to place “A soft answer turneth away wrath” against “grievous words stir up anger”; by 15:4, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life” against “perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit”. Together the unit concentrates on speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, violence, predation, conflict, and protection, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception 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 tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright” against “the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 15:1–4.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 15:1–4 — Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir…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 15:1–4, 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 15:1-15:4
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