Proverbs 21:23 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 21:22–25

Read Proverbs 21:23 with 21:22–25. Read alone, “Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from…” 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 “A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof”; by 21:25, it uses two-part parallelism to place “The desire of the slothful killeth him” beside “for his hands refuse to labour”. Together the unit concentrates on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, violence, predation, conflict, and protection within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 21:22–25 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, violence, predation, conflict, and protection, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles”.