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This may be the key verse in the entire book of Proverbs. This is because it points to a beginning or starting point for Christ's faith to build upon in an elect individual. Christ is the foundation and because we are born into sin, He can only begin to be known in our lives if we first come before Him humbly and with fear and we know this will only happen if He is drawing an individual. The search for wisdom in a spiritual way can only come from the LORD giving us a fear of Him:
"For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." (Job 28:24-28).
The second part of today's proverb teaches us that fools despise wisdom and instruction. In the Bible, the fool in a spiritual sense represents an unsaved individual. When the mind of an individual is so swollen in the height of pride that it rests upon its own self and not the will of God in salvation, then let us give them fair warning. We do know that vengeance will be just but how God condemns the wicked is a mystery shut to us and not accessable to human understanding. In Psalm 111 we read:
"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." (Psalm 111:10).
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