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New King James Version
Proverbs 1:5
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let a wise person listen and increase learning,and let a discerning person obtain guidance—
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Wise people can also listen and learn; even they can find good advice in these words.
(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
The wise will hear and increase their learning, And the person of understanding will acquire wise counsel and the skill [to steer his course wisely and lead others to the truth],
A wise person will hear and increase in learning, And a person of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
Let the wise man hear and increase in learning,And a man of understanding will acquire guidance,
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
If you are already wise, you will become even wiser. And if you are smart, you will learn to understand
Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
Even the wise could become wiser by listening to these proverbs. They will gain understanding and learn to solve difficult problems.
A wise man will listen and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to leadership;
These proverbs can even add to the knowledge of the wise and give guidance to the educated,
may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction,
The wise hears and increases learning, and the understanding ones gets wise counsel,
By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
The wise man wyll geue eare, and wyll come by more wisdome, and he that is endued with vnderstanding shal attayne vnto [wise] counsayles.
For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels:
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance
A wise man will hear and grow in learning. A man of understanding will become able
let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill,
A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wise: Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 12:1, Job 34:10, Job 34:16, Job 34:34, Psalms 119:98-100, 1 Corinthians 10:15
a man: 1 Samuel 25:32, 1 Samuel 25:33, 2 Chronicles 25:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:24 - General 1 Kings 10:1 - prove him 1 Kings 10:3 - told her Ezra 10:5 - arose Job 34:2 - General Proverbs 10:8 - wise Proverbs 10:14 - lay Proverbs 12:15 - but Proverbs 15:14 - heart Proverbs 18:15 - General Proverbs 21:11 - when the wise Jeremiah 17:23 - nor Daniel 12:10 - but the wise Hosea 14:9 - wise Matthew 13:23 - good Luke 11:36 - the whole Acts 10:33 - are we Acts 17:11 - more Acts 18:26 - expounded 1 Corinthians 14:31 - all may learn 1 John 2:21 - because ye know not
Cross-References
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
So the evening and the morning were the third day.
So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."
Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise [man] will hear,.... With great attention, and hearken to the proverbs and wise sayings herein delivered; for here are many things entertaining to men of years and wisdom, as well as instructive to young men and simple ones;
and will increase learning; or "add" k to his stock of learning; or, as the Targum,
"will add knowledge;''
see 2 Peter 1:5; or, "will be wiser", as the Vulgate Latin version. This is said to show the excellency of this book, and the extensive usefulness of it; indeed wise men will get knowledge where fools cannot, and increase learning where others can get none: there are few books but a wise man will get something out of; and especially such a book as this, and as the Scriptures are;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels; a man of a spiritual understanding arrives to the knowledge of the wise counsels of God; the doctrines of the Gospel, which are the "whole counsel" of God; are recondite wisdom, the hidden wisdom of God, which no wisdom of man is comparable to. It is the wisest scheme that was ever formed, and which the wit of man could never have devised, even salvation by Jesus Christ; and which was laid in God's "counsels of old", which are "faithfulness" and "truth"; the knowledge of which is attained unto by one that is spiritually wise. Moreover, a man that thoroughly understands the things contained in this book is fit to be a counsellor of others in things human and divine; in things moral, civil, and spiritual: he is fit to be in the cabinet council of princes, to be a counsellor of kings; yea, to have the reins of government in his hands. "He shall possess government"; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions: or, "he shall possess the helm" l; sit as a pilot there, as the word may signify, and steer the ship aright in which he is; whether it be his family, or the church of God, or a city or corporation, or a kingdom: this book, rightly understood by him, will furnish him with rules to do all things well and wisely.
k ××סף "addet", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. l ת××××ת ××§× × "gubernacula possidebit", V. L. "metaphora a nauclero desumpta", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But it is not for the young only that he writes. The âman of understandingâ may gain âwise counsels,â literally, the power to âsteerâ his course rightly on the dangerous seas of life. This âsteersmanship,â it may be noted, is a word almost unique to Proverbs (compare âcounselâ in Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 12:5; Proverbs 24:6).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:5. A wise man will hear — I shall not only give such instructions as may be suitable to the youthful and inexperienced, but also to those who have much knowledge and understanding. So said St. Paul: We speak wisdom among them that are perfect. This and the following verse are connected in the old MS. and in Coverdale: "By hearyinge the wyse man shall come by more wysdome; and by experience he shall be more apte to understonde a parable and the interpretation thereof; the wordes of the wyse and the darke speaches of the same."
