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Proverbs 25:11

Proverbs 25:11

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fitly spoken: Heb. spoken upon his wheels

is like: Rather "is like golden apples (tappuchim:, in Arabic, tuffach:), in baskets (maskeeyoth:, in Arabic, shakeekat:), of silver." A word spoken with propriety, opportunely, and suitably to the occasion, is as much in its place, and as conspicuously beautiful, as the golden fruit which appears through the apertures of an exquisitely wrought silver basket.

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