Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
7The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes, and he did not speak to them independent of a parable,
Mark 4:11And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things occur in parables.
Acts 8:30And after running near, Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. And he said, Do thou also really understand the things that thou read?
2 Peter 3:16as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:2-7
Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use of by the Holy Ghost for making known the mind of God to us, writing as moved by the finger of God (so the Spirit of God is called), and that is Solomon; through his hand came this book of Scripture and the two that follow it, Ecclesiastes and Canticles, a sermon and a song. Some think he wrote Canticles when he was very young, Proverbs in the midst of his days, and Ecclesiastes when he was old. In the title of his… Read the whole commentary →