Proverbs 1:5
The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
6To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:32And David said to Abigayil, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me;
Job 34:2Hear, O ye wise men, my words; and ye that have knowledge, give ear unto me.
Job 34:16If then thou wishest to understand, hear this: give ear to the sound of my words.
Psalms 119:98Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.
Proverbs 9:8Do not correct a scorner, lest he hate thee: reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
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 →