Proverbs 1:9

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

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WEBBE

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

BSB

For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

KJV

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

ASV

For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

BBE

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–9

Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.