Proverbs 28:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The “fear” here is not so much reverential awe, as anxious, or “nervous” sensitiveness of conscience. To most men this temperament seems that of the self-tormentor. To him who looks deeper it is a condition of blessedness, and the callousness which is opposed to it ends in misery.

Proverbs 28:14

14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.