Proverbs 14:26 (BSB)

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:26-27: In these two verses we are invited and encouraged to live in the fear of God by the advantages which attend a religious life. The fear of the Lord is here put for all gracious principles, producing gracious practices. 1. Where this reigns it produces a holy security and serenity of mind.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:26: In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence,.... Such who fear the Lord may be confident that he has a love to them, a delight in them; that his eye is upon them, and his heart towards them; and will communicate every needful good to them, and protect and defend them: or the Lord himself that is feared, who is the object of fear...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:26: The blessings of piety descend to children (Pro 13:22; Pro 20:7; Exo 20:6).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:26: Pro 14:26 26 In the fear of Jahve lies a strong ground of confidence, And the children of such an one have a refuge. The so-called בּ essentiae stands here, as at Psa 68:5; Psa 55:19; Isa 26:4, before the subject idea; the clause: in the fear of God exists, i.e., it is and proves itself, as a strong ground of confidence, does not mean...