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Good News Translation
Proverbs 1:2
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For learning wisdom and discipline;for understanding insightful sayings;
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,
They teach wisdom and self-control; they will help you understand wise words.
To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.
To know [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction; To discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,
To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
To know wisdom and discipline,To understand the sayings of understanding,
To know wisdom and discipline, to comprehend the words of insight,
Proverbs will teach you wisdom and self-control and how to understand sayings with deep meanings.
are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight;
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
They will help you learn to be wise, to accept correction, and to understand wise sayings.
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding,
To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
to lerne wy?dome nurtoure, vnderstondinge, prudence,
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding;
To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,
To learne wisdome and instruction, & to perceaue the wordes of vnderstandyng,
to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
to kunne wisdom and kunnyng;
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding,
Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise.
They show you how to know wisdom and teaching, to find the words of understanding.
For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight,
For the knowledge of wisdom and correction, for discerning the sayings of intelligence;
To know wisdom, and instruction:
That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight,
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 4:5-7, Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 17:16, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:6, 1 Kings 3:9-12, 2 Timothy 3:15-17
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:8 - General Proverbs 2:9 - General Proverbs 8:33 - Hear Luke 11:49 - the wisdom
Cross-References
So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;
God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.
But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?
The Lord created the heavens by his command, the sun, moon, and stars by his spoken word.
The Lord created the heavens— he is the one who is God! He formed and made the earth— he made it firm and lasting. He did not make it a desolate waste, but a place for people to live. It is he who says, "I am the Lord , and there is no other god.
Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, desolate! Hearts melt with fear; knees tremble, strength is gone; faces grow pale.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To know wisdom and instruction,.... That is, these proverbs were made, and written, and published, to make known or to teach men wisdom and knowledge; not only in things moral, and therefore these proverbs are by some called Solomon's "ethics"; and indeed they do contain the best system of morality in the whole world; nothing like it is to be extracted out of all the writings of the Heathen poets and philosophers: nor only in things civil; for which reason they may be called his "politics", seeing they are instructive to kings and civil magistrates, and to subjects; and also his "economics", seeing they furnish out rules for husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants, worthy of their attention and observance: but also they are a means of and are designed to teach spiritual and evangelical wisdom and knowledge; things relating to Jesus Christ, the wisdom of God, and the way of life and salvation by him, the knowledge of which is life eternal. These words, with others that follow, seem to be synonymous, and signify much one and the same thing; and are used to show that the most consummate wisdom and comprehensive knowledge may be attained by means of this book; which, like the rest of Scripture, with a divine blessing, is able to make a man "wise unto salvation"; and is "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness", 2 Timothy 3:15; where the apostle seems to allude to this text: since "wisdom" here may stand for "doctrine" in general; and "instruction" may signify the means of attaining to it; and it may be observed, that the word is used for "discipline" and "correction", as well as "instruction". If these words are to be distinguished, the first, "wisdom", may design a wise scheme and plan of truths, and the theory of them and the latter, "instruction", the learning it and putting it into practice; and for both theory and practice this book is useful;
to perceive the words of understanding; which flow from a good understanding, and give a right understanding of things; so that a man may be able to distinguish between light and darkness, truth and error, right and wrong; particularly the doctrines of the Gospel may be meant, which are eminently so, and exceed the understanding of a natural man, and which are only understood by a spiritual man; the means of knowing which are the Scriptures, under the guidance and direction of the Spirit of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The writer’s purpose is to educate. He is writing what might be called an ethical handbook for the young, though not for the young only. Of all books in the Old Testament, this is the one which we may think of as most distinctively educational. A comparison of it with a similar manual, the “sayings of the fathers,” in the Mishna, would help the student to measure the difference between Scriptural and rabbinical teaching.
Wisdom - The power by which human personality reaches its highest spiritual perfection, by which all lower elements are brought into harmony with the highest, is presently personified as life-giving and creative. Compare the notes of Job 28:23, etc.
Instruction - i. e., discipline or training, the practical complement of the more speculative wisdom.
Understanding - The power of distinguishing right from wrong, truth from its counterfeit. The three words σοφία sophia, παιδεία paideia, φρόνησις phronēsis (Septuagint), express very happily the relation of the words in the Hebrew.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:2. To know wisdom — That is, this is the design of parabolical writing in general; and the particular aim of the present work.
This and the two following verses contain the interpretation of the term parable, and the author's design in the whole book. The first verse is the title, and the next three verses are an explanation of the nature and design of this very important tract.
Wisdom — חכמה chochmah may mean here, and in every other part of this book, not only that Divine science by which we are enabled to discover the best end, and pursue it by the most proper means; but also the whole of that heavenly teaching that shows us both ourselves and God, directs us into all truth, and forms the whole of true religion.
And instruction — מוסר musar, the teaching that discovers all its parts, to understand, to comprehend the words or doctrines which should be comprehended, in order that we may become wise to salvation.
