Proverbs 25:13 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 25:11–14

Read Proverbs 25:13 with 25:11–14. Read alone, “As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful…” 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 word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver”; by 25:14, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain”. Together the unit concentrates on wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, observational wisdom drawn from creatures and ordinary life, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence within “Solomonic sayings copied by Hezekiah's men.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 25:11–14 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “Solomonic sayings copied by Hezekiah's men.” Its lines concentrate on wealth, poverty, provision, and economic power, observational wisdom drawn from creatures and ordinary life, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, 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 “As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a…” and develops the line through “for he refresheth the soul of his masters”.