The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 14:26-27
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...
(Compare Pro 13:14). fear of the Lord--or, "law of the wise," is wisdom (Psa 111:10).