Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:32And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:
Job 34:2Hear my words, O all of you wise men; and give ear unto me, all of you that have knowledge.
Job 34:16If now you have understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
Psalms 119:98You through your commandments have made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Proverbs 9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
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 →