Mishle 14:27

27 The Yirat Hashem is a makor chayyim (fountain of life) to turn one away from the snares of mavet.

Mishle 14:27 Meaning and Commentary

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", ( John 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 fountain of life: as of natural, so of spiritual and eternal life; spiritual life springs from him, is supported and maintained by him, the consequence of which is life everlasting; to depart from the snares of death;
sins, transgressions, as Aben Ezra interprets it; these are the works of men's hands, in which they are snared; these are the cords in which they are holden, and so die without instruction; the wages of them are death, even death eternal: likewise there are the snares of the world and of the devil, temptations to sin, with which being ensnared, lead to death; now the fear of the Lord is a means of delivering from and of avoiding those snares, and so of escaping death.

Mishle 14:27 In-Context

25 An ed emes (true witness) saveth nefashot (souls, lives), but a lying witness is a betrayer.

26 In the Yirat Hashem is strong confidence, and his banim shall have a place of refuge.

27 The Yirat Hashem is a makor chayyim (fountain of life) to turn one away from the snares of mavet.

28 In the multitude of people is the glory of a melech, but in the lack of subjects is the ruin of the prince.

29 He that is slow to wrath is of rav tevunah (great understanding), but he that is angrily impulsive exalteth folly.