Proverbs 14:27 (BSB)

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:27

• 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 14:27: The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,.... Where the true fear of God is, there is a real principle of grace, which is "a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life", Joh 4:14; eternal life is connected with it; it makes meet for it, and issues in it: or the Lord, who is the object of fear, he is the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:27: (Compare Pro 13:14). fear of the Lord--or, "law of the wise," is wisdom (Psa 111:10).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:27: Pro 14:27 27 The fear of Jahve is a fountain of life, To escape the snares of death. There springs up a life which makes him who carries in himself (cf. Joh 4:14, ἐν αὐτῷ) this welling life, penetrating and strong of will to escape the snares (write after the Masora ממּקשׁי defective) which death lays, and which bring to an end in death -...