Proverbs 15:33
The fear of Jehovah is the discipline of wisdom, and before honour [goeth] humility.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
In Context
32He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul; but he that heareth reproof getteth sense.
Cross References
Job 28:28And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 111:10The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do [his precepts]: his praise abideth for ever.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
Proverbs 25:6Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of the great;
Luke 14:11for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.
James 4:10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:33
32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. See here, 1. The folly of those that will not be taught, that refuse instruction, that will not heed it, but turn their backs upon it, or will not hear it, but turn their hearts against it. They refuse correction (margin); they will not take it, no, not from God himself, but kick against the pricks. Those that do so despise their own souls; they show that they have a low and mean opinion of them, and are in… Read the whole commentary →