Proverbs 1:6 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

English Standard Version
to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

New American Standard Bible
To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

King James Bible
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for understanding a proverb or a parable, the words of the wise, and their riddles.

International Standard Version
in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.

American Standard Version
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Darby Bible Translation
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.

Young's Literal Translation
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

Cross References

Numbers 12:8
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.

Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Proverbs 24:23
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Daniel 8:23
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

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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

6. To understand—so as to … such will be the result.

interpretation—(Compare Margin).

words of the wise—(Compare Pr 1:2).

dark sayings—(Compare Ps 49:4; Joh 16:25; and see [639]Introduction, Part I).