Proverbs 15:9 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 15:5–9

Read Proverbs 15:9 with 15:5–9. Read alone, “The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he…” 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 fool despiseth his father’s instruction” against “he that regardeth reproof is prudent”; by 15:9, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD” against “he loveth him that followeth after righteousness”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 15:5–9 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, 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 “The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD” against “he loveth him that followeth after righteousness”.