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To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise.
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More Than Just Rules
Commentators explain that this verse reveals a key purpose of the book of Proverbs: it's designed to train your mind. The goal isn't just to learn individual sayings, but to develop the skill to understand deep truths, interpret complex ideas, and see the beauty in God's wisdom. It's about forming a 'habit of mind' for discernment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The book has a further scope; these proverbs are to form a habit of mind. To gain through them the power of entering into the deeper meaning of oth…
19th Century
Anglican
Interpretation.— Or an obscure thing which needs interpretation, so corresponding to “dark sayings.”
Dark sayings.—<…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation This may be connected either with the first verse, "the proverbs of …
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The lessons given here are plain, and likely to benefit those who feel their own ignorance and their need to be taught. If young people pay attenti…
