Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles.
New American Standard Bible
The words of the wise and their
King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Holman Bible
the words of the wise, and their riddles.
International Standard Version
in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.
A Conservative Version
to understand a proverb, and a figure, 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.
Amplified
To understand a proverb and a figure [of speech] or an enigma with its interpretation,
And the words of the wise and their riddles [that require reflection].
Bible in Basic English
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Darby Translation
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
Julia Smith Translation
To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.
King James 2000
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
Modern King James verseion
to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise, and their acute sayings.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.
NET Bible
To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
New Heart English Bible
to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
The Emphasized Bible
By gaining discernment of proverb, and satire, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 78:2
I will offer a parable [with] my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,
Numbers 12:8
I will speak to him mouth to mouth, [in] clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,
Matthew 13:51-52
"Have you understood all these [things]?" They said to him, "Yes."
Mark 4:34
And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.