Proverbs 1:7
The reverence of Yahweh, is the beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and correction, the foolish have despised.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
In Context
6By gaining discernment of proverb, and satire, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
8Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The beginning of wisdom, is the reverence of Yahweh, Good discretion, have all that do them, His praise, endureth for aye.
Proverbs 1:29Because they hated knowledge, and, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;
Proverbs 9:10The beginning of wisdom, is the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of the Holy, is understanding;
Proverbs 15:33The reverence of Yahweh, is the correction of wisdom, and, before honour, is humility.
Ecclesiastes 12:13The conclusion of the matter—the whole, let us hear,—Towards God, be reverent, and, his commandments, observe, for, this, [concerneth] all mankind.
Romans 1:28And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,
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 →