SinaiProverbs 1:7
American Standard Version
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
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Proverbs 1:7 in other translations
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;
but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7 in context
- 5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
- 6To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- 7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
- 9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.