Proverbs 25:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Proverbs 25:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Luke 14:11
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
2 Peter 2:15-19
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; …
Luke 18:10-14
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14)

He may be said to boast of a false gift, 1. Who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, which he never gave, makes a noise of his great accomplishments and his good services, but it is all false; he is not what he pretends to be. Or, 2. Who promises what he will give and what he will do, but performs nothing, who raises people’s expectations of the mighty things he will do for…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. clouds--literally, “vapors” (Jr 10:13), clouds only in appearance. a false gift--promised, but not given.