Proverbs 1:6 - American Standard Version 2015

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

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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.

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.

Proverbs 1:6 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 49:4

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

Psalm 78:2

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

Proverbs 24:23

These also are {\i sayings} of the wise.\par\par\tab 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 {\i the words of} the masters of assemblies, {\i 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, {\cf6 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, {\i even} those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.\par

2 Peter 3:16

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