Proverbs 1:7
Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Young's Literal Translation
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 thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The beginning of wisdom [is] fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise [is] standing for ever!
Proverbs 1:29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Proverbs 9:10The commencement of wisdom [is] the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones [is] understanding.
Proverbs 15:33The fear of Jehovah [is] the instruction of wisdom, And before honour [is] humility!
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 →