Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 26:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
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Role in This Section
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 26:13–16
Read Proverbs 26:16 inside Proverbs 26:13–16: it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason”. The unit then locates that line within work, diligence, provision, and creaturely limits, observational wisdom drawn from creatures and ordinary life, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence rather than treating it as a free-standing formula.
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason”. Read Proverbs 26:13–16 before assigning independent truth or application to Proverbs 26:16.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 26:13–16 — Work, diligence, provision, and creaturely limits — The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a...Sources used for this context pointer
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 26:13–16, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗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 26:13-26:16
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