11 A word spoken at the right time
is like gold apples on a silver tray.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or like apples of gold in settings of silver

11 Like apples[a] of gold in settings of silver(A)
    is a ruling rightly given.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots

The Obedient Servant

The Lord God has given Me
the tongue of those who are instructed(A)
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.(B)

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The Sovereign Lord(A) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(B)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.(C)
He wakens me morning by morning,(D)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(E)

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