Proverbs 1:6
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New International Version (©1984)
for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
to understand a proverb and a clever saying, the words of wise people and their riddles.

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

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

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

Bible in Basic English
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of 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.

English Revised Version
To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Webster's Bible Translation
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

World English Bible
to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

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

Geneva Study Bible

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

King James Translators' Notes

the interpretation: or, an eloquent speech

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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).

Matthew Henry's Concise 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.


Numbers 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"
Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Daniel 8:23 "In the latter period of their rule, When the transgressors have run their course, A king will arise, Insolent and skilled in intrigue. (NASB ©1995)

Acute Allegory Dark Enigmas Figure Interpretation Parables Proverb Proverbs Riddles Sayings Secrets Sense Sweetness Understand Understanding Wise Words


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

a proverb Mt 13:10-17,51,52 Mr 4:11,34 Ac 8:30,31

the interpretation Ec 12:11

dark Ps 49:4 78:2 Mt 13:34,35 Heb 5:14 2Pe 3:16

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