Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 28:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
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Quick Meaning
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife” against “he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 28:24–27
Proverbs 28:24–27 is the required frame for Proverbs 28:25. Here the saying uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife” against “he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat”; its collection setting controls whether the words describe a pattern, warning, invitation, or bounded command.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This line follows the unit's earlier saying and prepares its later turn; it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife” against “he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat”. Its value is contextual rather than slogan-like.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that...”
In plain language: reverent accountability before the LORD
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife” against “he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Wisdom begins with reverent accountability to the LORD and refuses to make human insight self-sufficient. In Proverbs 28:25, that bounded truth is expressed through “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Bring the decision under truthful worship, moral accountability, and correction rather than using religious language to shield preference or power. For Proverbs 28:25, preserve the sequence: verse role (uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife” against “he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 28:24–27 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 28:24–27 — Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is...Sources used for this Verse Lens
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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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 28:24–27, 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 28:24-28:27
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1171-1175, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 28:24–27
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