What Does Proverbs 6:15 Mean in the King James?
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse pairs a sudden break with “no healing,” revealing that some consequences reach a point beyond repair.
THE MEANING
When deceit and discord shape a person’s way, their consequences can arrive without warning. This verse names more than a setback: the break has no healing. It speaks now as a sober edge to the belief that every consequence can always be repaired.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that repair is always available later, no matter how long harm is repeated.
THE ROOT
מַרְפֵּא
marpe
GROWS FROM
רפא
rapha
to heal, make well
The word translated “remedy” comes from the root for healing, and the verse says there is none. This is a break without restoration, not simply a difficult moment.
ALSO GROWS
rofe: healer, physician
רֹפֵא
The healer and the remedy share the language of healing, sharpening the force of the verse’s “no healing.”
refu’ah: healing, cure
רְפוּאָה
This names healing itself, the restoration the verse says is absent.
יִשָּׁבֵר
yishaver
GROWS FROM
שבר
shavar
to break, shatter, fracture
“broken” in this verse is yishaver. The verb presents a break as an event that happens to a person, rather than a passing feeling. Paired with “no healing,” it describes a rupture with no restoration named.
ALSO GROWS
shever: fracture, ruin, breaking
שֶׁבֶר
The noun form makes the break itself visible as ruin or fracture.
shibber: he shattered, broke into pieces
שִׁבֵּר
This form intensifies the image of a break that is more than a minor setback.
THE PATTERN
Repeated choices can culminate in sudden consequences, and scripture warns that not every consequence has a remedy.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.THE THREAD
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.Proverbs 29:1 repeats the Hebrew sequence פֶּתַע יִשָּׁבֵר וְאֵין מַרְפֵּא (peta yishaver ve’ein marpe: suddenly be broken, and there is no healing). Its opening phrase about repeatedly hardening against correction makes this warning more specific: suddenness is the end of a pattern, not a random event.
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