Proverbs 1:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Flere versioner

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

Psalm 78:2

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

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.

Daniel 8:23

And at the latter end of their rule, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance, one who understands riddles, shall arise.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Mark 4:11

And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;

Mark 4:34

he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.