Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Job 28:28
And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures for ever.

Proverbs 2:5
Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Proverbs 15:32
He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.

Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. The fear of the Lord—the principle of true piety (compare Pr 2:5; 14:26, 27; Job 28:28; Ps 34:11; 111:10; Ac 9:31).

beginning—first part, foundation.

fools—the stupid and indifferent to God's character and government; hence the wicked.