Proverbs 1:6 - American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ That people may understand a proverb and a figure of speech or an enigma with its interpretation, and the words of the wise and their dark sayings or riddles.

Common English Bible

⁶ They help one understand proverbs and difficult sayings, the words of the wise, and their puzzles.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ He shall turn his soul to a parable and to its interpretation, to the words of the wise and their enigmas.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Proverbs 1:6 Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of 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.

Numbers 12:8

with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

Mark 4:11

And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:

Mark 4:34

and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.