Proverbs 15:33
The fear of YHWH [is] the instruction of wisdom, || And humility [is] before honor!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
In Context
Cross References
Job 28:28And He says to man: Behold, fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom, || And to turn from evil [is] understanding.”
Psalms 111:10The fear of YHWH [is] the beginning of wisdom, || Good understanding have all doing them, || His praise [is] standing forever!
Proverbs 8:13The fear of YHWH [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, || And a contrary mouth, I have hated.
Proverbs 25:6Do not honor yourself before a king, || And do not stand in the place of the great.
Luke 14:11because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and he who is humbling himself will be exalted.”
James 4:10be made low before the LORD, and He will 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 →