Proverbs 1:9
◄  Proverbs 1:9  ►
New International Version (©2011)
They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

New Living Translation (©2007)
What you learn from them will crown you with grace and be a chain of honor around your neck.

English Standard Version (©2001)
for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
for they will be a garland of grace on your head and a gold chain around your neck.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for your neck.

NET Bible (©2006)
For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For they are beauty to your head and a necklace for your neck.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
because discipline and teachings are a graceful garland on your head and a [golden] chain around your neck.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

American King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.

American Standard Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Darby Bible Translation
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

English Revised Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

World English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Young's Literal Translation
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,.... The instructions and laws of parents being attended unto and obeyed by children, render them more lovely and amiable than any beautiful ornament whatever that can be put upon their heads;

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

הם, which is also used in the neut. illa, e.g., Job 22:24, refers here to the paternal discipline and the maternal teaching. These, obediently received and followed, are the fairest ornament of the child. לויה, from לוה, to wind, to roll, Arab. lawy (from לו, whence also לוּל equals לולו, as דּוּד, to boil up, equals דּודּו), means winding, twisted ornament, and especially wreath; a crown of gracefulness is equivalent to a graceful crown, a corolla gratiosa, as Schultens translates it; cf. Proverbs 4:9, according to which, Wisdom bestows such a crown.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To the Israelite's mind no signs or badges of joy or glory were higher in worth than the garland around the head, the gold chain around the neck, worn by kings and the favorites of kings Genesis 41:42; Daniel 5:29.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

An ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains - That is, filial respect and obedience will be as ornamental to thee as crowns, diadems, and golden chains and pearls are to others.

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Geneva Study Bible

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

King James Translators' Notes

an...: Heb. an adding

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. On the figures of Pr 1:9, compare Ge 41:42; So 1:10; 4:9.

Proverbs 1:9 Parallel Commentaries
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The Enticement of Sin
8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not. …

Genesis 41:42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
Psalm 73:6 Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:22 they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.
Proverbs 4:9 She will give you a garland to grace your head and present you with a glorious crown."
Song of Solomon 4:9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Jeremiah 35:8 We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
Ezekiel 16:11 I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,
Daniel 5:29 Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.