Proverbs 1:5
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
- KJV
- A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
- WEB
- that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
- ASV
- That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
- DARBY
- He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
- BLB
- Let the wise hear and add to instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel,
- ÅB
- Den vise skal høre på dem og gå fram i lærdom, og den forstandige vinne evne til å leve rett.
- OTB
- La de vise høre og øke sin læring, og la de som har forståelse få veiledning,
- B1930
- Den vise skal høre på dem og gå frem i lærdom, og den forstandige vinne evne til å leve rett.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Read in contextProverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:15
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
Read in contextJob 34:10
Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Read in contextJob 34:16
If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
Read in contextPsalms 119:98–100
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Read in contextJob 34:34
Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
Read in context2 Chronicles 25:16
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
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