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Proverbs 28:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool” against “whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 28:24–27
Read Proverbs 28:26 with 28:24–27. Read alone, “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses two-part parallelism to place “Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is…” beside “the same is the companion of a destroyer”; by 28:27, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack” against “he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, reverent accountability before the LORD within “Solomonic sayings copied by Hezekiah's men.”
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool” against “whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered”. Read Proverbs 28:24–27 before assigning independent truth or application to Proverbs 28:26.
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 context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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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 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
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