Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Webster Bible
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 my 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 Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he spoke not to them:
Mark 4:11And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Acts 8:30And Philip ran thither to him , and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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 wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to 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 →