Proverbs 1:3
and to take the learning of teaching; to take rightfulness, and doom, and equity; (and to receive learning from teaching, or from instruction; to gain righteousness, and judgement, or justice, and fairness;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
In Context
2to know wisdom and knowing (or to know wisdom and knowledge); to understand the words of prudence;
Cross References
1 Kings 3:28Therefore all Israel heard the doom, which the king had deemed; and they dreaded the king, and saw, that the wisdom of God was in him, to make doom. (And so all Israel heard the judgement, which the king had decreed; and they revered the king, and saw, that God’s wisdom was in him, to make judgements, or justice.)
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee (or and hidest my commands with thee);
Proverbs 8:10Take ye my chastising, and not money, (or Receive, or accept, my discipline, and not money); choose ye teaching, more than treasure.
Ecclesiastes 12:10he sought (out) profitable words, and he wrote most rightful words, and full of truth.
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 →