Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
BSB
ASV
A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in network of silver.
KJV
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Apples of gold - Probably the golden colored fruit set in baskets (i. e., chased vessels of open worked silver); so is a word spoken upon its wheels (i. e., moving quickly and quietly on its way). The proverb may have had its origin in some kingly gift to the son of David, the work of Tyrian artists, like Hiram and his fellows. Others gazed on the cunning work and admired, but the wise king saw in the costly rarity a parable of something higher. “A word well set upon the wheels of speech” excelled it.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
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For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
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Proverbs 15:23A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
