Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Revised Version 1895
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: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
Mark 4:11And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
Acts 8:30And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
2 Peter 3:16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do 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 →