Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections [of them] as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
Mark 4:11And he said to them, To you is given [to know] the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,
Acts 8:30And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
2 Peter 3:16as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, 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 →