“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding” (Proverbs 9:10).
“What the alphabet is to reading, notes to reading music, and numerals to mathematics, the fear of the Lord is to attaining the revealed knowledge of [Proverbs].”-Bruce Waltke
C. Bridges defines fear of the Lord as “that affectionate reverence, by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to his Father’s law.”
The key to reading Proverbs is understanding that wisdom begins with a relationship with the living God. The one who reads this book and assumes that they can apply its principles in a mechanistic way in order to achieve some pleasurable life independent of God is gravely mistaken.
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