Proverbs 1:9
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
In Context
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:22They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Song of Solomon 4:9You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
Daniel 5:16But I have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
1 Timothy 2:9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:8-10
Parental Admonitions. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality… Read the whole commentary →