Proverbs 1:7
Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
In Context
6For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, || Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother,
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The fear of YHWH [is] the beginning of wisdom, || Good understanding have all doing them, || His praise [is] standing forever!
Proverbs 1:29Because that they have hated knowledge, || And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
Proverbs 9:10The commencement of wisdom [is] the fear of YHWH, || And a knowledge of the Holy Ones [is] understanding.
Proverbs 15:33The fear of YHWH [is] the instruction of wisdom, || And humility [is] before honor!
Ecclesiastes 12:13The end of the whole matter let us hear: “Fear God, and keep His commands, for this [is] the whole of man.
Romans 1:28And according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
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 →