Proverbs 1:6
He shall turn his soul to a parable and to its interpretation, to the words of the wise and their enigmas.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5By listening, the wise shall become wiser and the intelligent shall possess governments.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are like a goad, and like nails deeply fastened, which, through the counsel of teachers, are set forth by one pastor.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,
Mark 4:11And he said to them: “To you, it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to those who are outside, everything is presented in parables:
Acts 8:30And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, “Do you think that you understand what you are reading?”
2 Peter 3:16just as he also spoke in all of his epistles about these things. In these, there are certain things which are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and the unsteady distort, as they also do 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 →