Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 1:7
Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.
Read Proverbs 1. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Proverbs1:7
7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction .
Reverence and obedience to God, or his Worship and Service, as this word is commonly used.
Either the Foundation, or the Top, and Perfection, or chief Point, without which all other knowledge is vain and useless.
Wicked men, called Fools through this whole Book, such as do not fear God.
Are so far from attaining true Wisdom, that they despise it, and all the means of getting it. Which fully proves what he now said, that the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.
Marginal references: Job 28. 28. Psal. 111. 10. Chap. 9. 10. Eccl. 12. 13.; Or, the principal part.
Matthew Poole and continuators, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, Proverbs 1:7. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.