Proverbs 21:14 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 21:14–17

Read Proverbs 21:14 with 21:14–17. Read alone, “A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: opens with “A gift in secret pacifieth anger” and develops the line through “and a reward in the bosom strong wrath”; by 21:17, it opens with “He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man” and develops the line through “he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich”. Together the unit concentrates on violence, predation, conflict, and protection, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 21:14–17 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on violence, predation, conflict, and protection, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse opens with “A gift in secret pacifieth anger” and develops the line through “and a reward in the bosom strong wrath”.