Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Updated King James Version
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 fools 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 fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:
Mark 4:11And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Acts 8:30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understand you what you read?
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable shift, 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 →