Proverbs 1:7
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6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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The Berean Standard Bible rendered in the vocabulary of the ancient world — firmament, Sheol, ascension offering — with the translators' notes shown inline. About this translation
6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- The Hebrew words rendered as fool in Proverbs denote one who is morally deficient.
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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The 1611 translation, in its familiar form.
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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