Proverbs 1:6
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, || Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5(The wise hear and increase learning, || And the intelligent obtain counsels.)
7Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I incline my ear to an allegory, || I open my riddle with a harp:
Ecclesiastes 12:11Words of the wise [are] as the goads, and as nails planted [by] the masters of collections, they have been given by one Shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in allegories to the multitudes, and without an allegory He was not speaking to them,
Mark 4:11and He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the secret of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, in allegories are all the things done,
Acts 8:30and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you then know what you read?”
2 Peter 3:16as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which are some things [that are] hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable twist, as also the other Writings, 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 →