Proverbs 1:5 let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--

English Standard Version
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

New American Standard Bible
A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

King James Bible
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a wise man will listen and increase his learning, and a discerning man will obtain guidance--

International Standard Version
Let the wise listen and increase their learning; let the person of understanding receive guidance

American Standard Version
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.

Darby Bible Translation
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:

Young's Literal Translation
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

Cross References

Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understands.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:1-6 The lessons here given are plain, and likely to benefit those who feel their own ignorance, and their need to be taught. If young people take heed to their ways, according to Solomon's Proverbs, they will gain knowledge and discretion. Solomon speaks of the most important points of truth, and a greater than Solomon is here. Christ speaks by his word and by his Spirit. Christ is the Word and the Wisdom of God, and he is made to us wisdom.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5, 6. Such writings the wise, who pursue right ends by right means, will value.

learning—not the act, but matter of it.

wise counsels—or the art and principles of governing.