Proverbs 1:6
He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.
Mark 4:11And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:
Acts 8:30And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do 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 →