A word fitly spoken, for the matter, and season, and other circumstances of it, is like apples of gold in pictures of silver, which it seems was usual in those times, and was grateful to the eye for the beauty and variety both of the colours and figures, the golden apples appearing through net-work of silver, or being engraven or portrayed upon tablets of silver.
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Proverbs 25:11
11 A word fitlyb spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.