Proverbs 25:14

14. A false gift This is understood of one that boasts of an intended gift which he never bestows.

Like clouds… without rain Clouds and wind sometimes give promise of rain that comes not. Coverdale translates according to the sense: “Whose maketh great boasts and giveth nothing.” Compare 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:12. For false gift here, the Geneva has “false liberalitie.”