NET Bible
"(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)"
— Proverbs 1:5, NET Bible
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
“That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ”
“that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:”
“A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.”
“(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)”
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel.
To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.
To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.
(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
Introduction to the Theme of the Book Fearing the LORD is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.
Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.