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Proverbs 24:14 Explained in Context

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Verse 14. So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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Role in This Section

This verse opens with “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul” and develops the line through “when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward,...”.

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  • Proverbs 24:13–14

Within Sayings of the wise, Proverbs 24:14 opens with “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul” and develops the line through “when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward,...”. The immediate unit supplies proportion, affected people, and the transition from meaning to application.

Why It Needs Context

Proverbs 24:14 opens with “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul” and develops the line through “when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward,...”. Because this line supplies setup, support, continuation, or result, “Honey becomes an analogy for wisdom and future hope” provides the meaning it cannot responsibly carry alone.

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The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.

Read Proverbs 24:13–14 — Honey becomes an analogy for wisdom and future hope
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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.

These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.

Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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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 24:13–14, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus

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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 24:13-24:14

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