Proverbs 1:6
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
5(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
7Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
Ecclesiastes 12:11Words of the wise [are] as goads, and as fences planted [by] the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
Mark 4:11and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
Acts 8:30and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 'Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'
2 Peter 3:16as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, 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 →