Proverbs 1:5
(The wise hear and increase learning, || And the intelligent obtain counsels.)
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4For giving to simple ones—prudence, || To a youth—knowledge and discretion.
6For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, || Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:32And David says to Abigail, “Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, who has sent you to meet me this day,
Job 34:2“Hear, O wise men, my words, || And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
Job 34:16And if [there is] understanding, hear this, || Give ear to the voice of my words.
Psalms 119:98Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, || For it [is] before me for all time.
Proverbs 9:8Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you, || Give reproof to the wise, and he loves you.
Proverbs 12:1Whoever is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, || And whoever is hating 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 →