Proverbs 1:9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

◄ Proverbs 1:9 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

English Standard Version
for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

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

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

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

International Standard Version
They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for 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.

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:42
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothing of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:

Proverbs 3:22
So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.

Proverbs 4:9
She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.

Song of Solomon 4:9
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

Jeremiah 35:8
Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

Ezekiel 16:11
I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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