The fear of the Lord; reverence and obedience to God, or his worship and service, as this word is commonly used. The beginning; either the foundation, or the top, and perfection, or chief point, without which all other knowledge is vain and useless. Fools; wicked men, called fools through this whole book; such as do not fear God. Despise wisdom and instruction; 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.

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