Proverbs 1:6
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
Matthew 13:34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
Mark 4:11He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
Acts 8:30So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the 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 →