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Proverbs 30:11 Explained in Context

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Verse 11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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Role in This Section

This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother”.

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  • Proverbs 30:10–14

Read Proverbs 30:11 inside Proverbs 30:10–14: it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother”. The unit then locates that line within humility, teachability, pride, and reputation, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care rather than treating it as a free-standing formula.

Why It Needs Context

This context pointer contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother”. Read Proverbs 30:10–14 before assigning independent truth or application to Proverbs 30:11.

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

Read Proverbs 30:10–14 — Humility, teachability, pride, and reputation — Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee,...
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Where care is needed

The verse belongs to a larger speech, instruction, prayer, number saying, or poem; its voice and complete literary movement control how strongly an isolated line may be stated.

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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 30:10–14, 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 30:10-30:14

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