Proverbs 1:6
By gaining discernment of proverb, and satire, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will bend, to a by-word, mine ear, I will open, on the lyre, mine enigma.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise, are as goads, yea, as driven nails, their well-ordered sayings,—given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things, spake Jesus in parables, unto the multitudes, and, without a parable, was he speaking, nothing, unto them:
Mark 4:11and he was saying unto them—To you, the sacred secret hath been given of the kingdom of God, whereas, to them who are outside, in parables are all things coming to pass,—that
Acts 8:30And, running near, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said—Dost thou, then, understand what thou art reading?
2 Peter 3:16As also, in all letters, speaking in them concerning these things,—in which [letters] are some things, hard to be understood, which, the uninstructed and unstable, wrest,—as also the other scriptures,—unto 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 →