Proverbs 1:6
To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The wordes of the wise are like goads, and like nailes fastened by the masters of the assemblies, which are giuen by one pastour.
Matthew 13:34All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them,
Mark 4:11And he saide vnto them, To you it is giuen to knowe the mysterie of the kingdome of God: but vnto them that are without, all thinges bee done in parables,
Acts 8:30And Philip ranne thither, and heard him reade the Prophet Esaias, and said, But vnderstandest thou what thou readest?
2 Peter 3:16As one, that in all his Epistles speaketh of these thinges: among the which some thinges are hard to be vnderstand, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures vnto their owne 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 →