Focused Passage

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint

The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

24 Wisdom is the focus of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

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Verse 24

Original words

Wisdom חָכְמָ֑ה H2451 Noun - feminine singular vvv אֶת־ H854 Preposition is the focus פְּנֵ֣י H6440 Noun - common plural construct of the discerning מֵבִ֣ין H995 Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular but the eyes וְעֵינֵ֥י H5869 Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc of a fool כְ֝סִ֗יל H3684 Noun - masculine singular wander to the ends בִּקְצֵה־ H7097 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct of the earth אָֽרֶץ׃ H776 Noun - feminine singular

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