Proverbs 15:33
The Yirat Hashem is the musar of chochmah; 1 and before kavod (honor) is anavah (humility).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 unto adam He said, 1 See, the Yirat Adonoi, that is chochmah, 1 and to depart from rah is binah.
Psalms 111:10The fear of Hashem is the reshit chochmah; 1 seichel tov have all they that live by it; 1 His tehillah (praise) endureth forever.
Proverbs 8:13The Yirat Hashem is to hate rah; 1 pride, and ga'on (arrogance), and the derech rah, 1 and the perverse peh (mouth), do I hate. 1
Proverbs 25:6Do not exalt thyself in the presence of Melech, 1 and stand not in the makom (place) of gedolim; 1
Luke 14:11For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and the one humbling himself shall be exalted.
James 4:10Be humbled before Hashem and He will exalt you. + 4:10 Job 5:11
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 →