The beginning of wisdom

Last Sunday we sang Psalm 19:7f, on the decrees of YHWH. First off I suspect it's appended to the psalm of El vv. 1-6, but that's not very important right now. More to the point I was pondering the fear of YHWH is the beginning of hikma. This is Proverbs 1:7a... and 9:10a.

And I doubt the verse fits either poem, Proverbs 1 or 9. Proverbs 9 is a hymn to the Hagia Sophía. Proverbs 1 begins as a Testament of father to son before, vv. 20f, shifting to a Prophetic sermon of reified Hikma to us mortal fools. Lord YHWH doesn't do anything. He doesn't even give any laws like the Lord of Psalm 19:7f did; Holy Wisdom is to do that.

The editor of the Proverbs-as-canon stuck those verses in, to steer away from taking the literal words seriously, which might lead to what the Muslims call shirk.