Proverbs 1:6

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

He shall perceive a parable, and the expounding; the words of wise men, and the dark figurative speeches of them.

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I shall bow down mine ear into a parable; I shall open my reason set forth in a psaltery.

Psalm 78:2

I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons [or propositions] from the beginning.

Proverbs 24:23

Also these things that pursue be to wise men. It is not good to know a person in doom.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of wise men be as pricks, and as nails fastened deep, which be given of one shepherd by the counsels of masters.

Daniel 8:23

And after the realm of them, when wickednesses have increased, a king shall rise unshamefast in face, and understanding propositions, either reasons set forth;

Numbers 12:8

for I speak to him mouth to mouth, and he seeth God openly, and not by dark speeches, either dark likenesses, and figures. Why therefore dreaded ye not to backbite my servant Moses?

Mark 4:11

And he said to them, To you it is given to know the private [or the mystery] of the kingdom of God. But to them that be withoutforth, all things be made in parables,

Mark 4:34

and he spake not to them without parable. But he expounded to his disciples all things by themselves.

Hebrews 5:14

But of perfect men is firm meat, of them that for custom have [their] wits exercised to discretion of good and of evil.

2 Peter 3:16

As and in all his epistles he speaketh in them of these things; in which be some hard things to under-stand, which unwise [or untaught] and unstable men deprave, as also they do other scriptures, to their own perdition.