Proverbs 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The fear of the Lord; which he had before noted to be the beginning of wisdom, Proverbs 1:7. Is to hate evil; it consists in a careful abstinence from all sin, and that not from carnal or prudential motives, but from a true dislike and hatred of it. Pride; which he mentions first, as that which is most hateful to God, and most opposite to true wisdom and to the fear of God, which constantly produce humility. The evil way; all wicked actions, especially sinful custom: and courses. The froward mouth; false doctrines, and bad counsels and deceits.