Proverbs 18:14 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 18:13–16

Read Proverbs 18:14 with 18:13–16. Read alone, “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him”; by 18:16, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men”. Together the unit concentrates on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, emotion, resilience, grief, and inward life, wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 18:13–16 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, emotion, resilience, grief, and inward life, wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, 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 spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity” against “a wounded spirit who can bear?”.