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Proverbs 14:26

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.”

— WEB

“In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.”

— KJV

“In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.”

— ASV

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Commentary

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. There is in it a strong confidence; it enables a man still to hold fast both his purity and his peace, whatever happens, and gives him boldness before God and the world. I know that I shall be justified - None of these things move me; such is the language of this confidence. 2. It entails a blessing upon posterity. The children of those that by faith make God their confidence shall be encouraged by the promise that God will be a God to believers and to their seed to flee to him as their refuge, and they shall find shelter in him. The children of religious parents often do the better for their parents' instructions and example and fare the better for their faith and prayers. "Our fathers trusted in thee, therefore we will." 3.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

The blessings of piety descend to children (Pro 13:22; Pro 20:7; Exo 20:6).

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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