The fear — Reverence and obedience to God. Beginning — The foundation without which all other knowledge is vain. Fools — That is, wicked men, are so far from attaining true wisdom, that they despise it, and all the means of getting it.
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Proverbs 1:7
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginningd of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.