Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
In Context
6To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; a good understanding have all that fulfill [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.
Proverbs 1:29For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
Proverbs 9:10The commencement of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; and the knowledge of the Most Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 15:33The fear of the Lord is the correction for wisdom; and before honor there must come humility.
Ecclesiastes 12:13The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [duty of] man.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:2-7
Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use of by the Holy Ghost for making known the mind of God to us, writing as moved by the finger of God (so the Spirit of God is called), and that is Solomon; through his hand came this book of Scripture and the two that follow it, Ecclesiastes and Canticles, a sermon and a song. Some think he wrote Canticles when he was very young, Proverbs in the midst of his days, and Ecclesiastes when he was old. In the title of his… Read the whole commentary →