Proverbs 9:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Proverbs 9:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Proverbs 2:5
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Fear God Graces Guidance Ignorance Knowledge

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment. He who, in the chapter before, showed his grandeur and glory as the Creator of the world, here shows his grace and goodness as the Redeemer of it.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. (Compare Pr 1:7). of the holy--literally, “holies,” persons or things, or both. This knowledge gives right perception.