But the humble person is open to counsel and reason and ready to be corrected and follow truth. Humility, unlike pride, does not recoil when commanded to do something. And this is essential for the advancement of wisdom because Moses taught us that wisdom consists in knowing and doing the commandments of God. I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the Lord my God commanded me that you should do them. . . . God's word is a divine prescription for how to be finally cured of all unhappiness.
Wisdom is the practical knowledge of how to attain that happiness.
Therefore, wisdom is hearing and doing the word of God. But the only people who will do this are the people who are humbly relying on God for help and who fear to seek happiness anywhere but in him. Therefore the fear of the Lord is the beginning and spring of all true wisdom. But something more has to be said about the nature of this wisdom. It is not enough to say it is a humble hearing and doing of God's word, because God's word does not address itself specifically to every human dilemma.