Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 17:28 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 28. 28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens with “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise” and develops the line through “and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of...”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 17:27–28
The line at Proverbs 17:28 opens with “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise” and develops the line through “and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of...”. Its place in Proverbs 17:27–28 matters because the edited collection joins it to speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception.
Why It Needs Context
This verse opens with “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise” and develops the line through “and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of...”. Its force depends on the complete instruction, list, comparison, or cluster in Proverbs 17:27–28; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 17:27–28 — Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of...Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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 17:27–28, 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 17:27-17:28
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