The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 9:1-12
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,.... This shows who the wise men are, and in what true wisdom lies; no man is wise till he fears the Lord, and he that does so is a wise man, at least then he begins to be one; this is the principal part of wisdom, Pro 1:7; and is at the first of it...
(Compare Pro 1:7). of the holy--literally, "holies," persons or things, or both. This knowledge gives right perception.