Proverbs 1:6
So as to understand a proverb and a deep maxim, The words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine ear to a poem; I will utter my song upon the harp.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads; yea, as nails driven in are the words of members of assemblies, given by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable he spoke nothing to them;
Mark 4:11And he said to them, To you hath been given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them, who are without, all things are done in parables; t
Acts 8:30And Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Well, but dost thou understand what thou art reading?
2 Peter 3:16as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which things are some that are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as also the other 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 →