The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Gill's Exposition
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,.... This shows who the wise men are, and in what true wisdom lies; no man is wise till he fears the Lord, and he that does so is a wise man, at least…
Barnes' Notes
The holy - The word in the Hebrew is plural, agreeing, probably, with אלהים 'elohı̂ym understood (so in Pro 30:3). The knowledge of the Most Holy One stands as the counterpart to the fear of Yahweh.
Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this…
Cambridge Bible
the beginning of wisdom See Pro 1:7, note, where however the Heb. word for "beginning" is different. Between the antagonistic companies (dealt with in Pro 9:7-9) of "her children" (Mat 11:19), who…
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