It’s not the type of fear that makes one run away, but I still think “fear of the LORD” is about as good as we can do, shall we say, in terms of communicating the fact that our relationship with the Lord should acknowledge the fact that He is, after all, our creator and sustainer, the one who is so much greater than we are. I think that’s why the emotion of fear, rather than love, is used here, because as you see, as you read through the book of Proverbs, a really important virtue is humility. If