As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
⛓ Read Proverbs 25 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Clouds without water, carried along by winds' echoes the proverb comparing a man who boasts of gifts he does not give to clouds and wind without rain. The image of empty, rain-less clouds is a wisdom figure for fruitless boasting.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give' parallels Paul's refusal to 'boast in other men's labors' or in work not his own (10:15-16). The shared censure of empty boasting in what one has not done gives thematic coherence, but the link is faint.
Low confidence