Proverbs 1:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The fear of the Lord That is, reverence for and obedience to God; is the beginning of knowledge The foundation and source of it; without which all other knowledge is vain and useless. Mark well this sentence, reader: all wisdom, which is not founded in religion, in the true and genuine fear of God, is empty and unprofitable, and will be found such in the time of affliction, in the hour of death, and at the day of judgment. But fools Wicked men, or men devoid of true religion, called fools throughout this whole book, despise wisdom and instruction Are so far from attaining it, that they despise it, and all the means of getting it.