Concerning Wisdom and the Fear of God

Prov 3:2-5

My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord.

Now, what I am about to say is completely speculative, but it seems to me that "fear of the Lord" is something that sets in--or at least is likely to set in--when understanding fails. In other words, in my seeking of wisdom I eventually come up against what I cannot know; it is vast, and it is beyond my grasp. To recognize this is perhaps the beginning of wisdom. To come up against mystery, to come up against the limits of our own understanding, is to come against the transcendent Lord, and to begin to "understand the fear of the Lord."

Or to put it another way: to understand our own lack of understanding is to begin to recognize God's awesomeness (as per Job, for example); our smallness and God's greatness, our poverty and God's riches, our emptiness and God's fullness, our sinfulness and God's righteousness; these attributes of God are thing we "understand" only in so far as we understand that they are truly far beyond our understanding, and we know them in the form of the stirrings of the fear of God.