“¶ The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
1:7 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.