Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken,.... Or, "a word spoken on its wheels" (d): that proceeds aright, keeps due order, is well circumstanced as to matter, method, time, place, and persons; a discourse well put…

Apples of gold - Probably the golden colored fruit set in baskets (i. e., chased vessels of open worked silver); so is a word spoken upon its wheels (i. e., moving quickly and quietly on its way). The…

Solomon here shows how much it becomes a man, 1. To speak pertinently: A word upon the wheels, that runs well, is well-circumstanced, in proper time and place - instruction, advice, or comfort, given…

fitly Lit. upon its wheels, i.e. smoothly and without hesitation.

Others render, at its(proper) times, i.e. seasonably, perhaps from the idea of times or seasons "revolving," or "rolling round." In…