The law & the fear of God: Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law. Psalm 119:70

Psalm 119 is a song dedicated to the praise of the law of Moses, and among other things, the hymn explains that God is the origin of good, or in other words, that ethics has its origin in God, and that the deep spiritual understanding of the law of Moses begins with the spiritual gift of fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion).
The fear of God in the Old Testament has a very profound spiritual meaning; this gift is the spiritual bond between God and humankind. Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, and Daniel bore witness to this gift with their lives. The gift of the fear of God is the tenderness of heart, the compassionate heart toward one's neighbor that God requires in all His precepts. It could be said that basically the first two commandments set forth by Moses are an expression of this gift.
And the fear of God is not only the beginning of understanding the law of Moses, but it is also the beginning of wisdom. Having explained this, it becomes clear that the fear of God is something deeply related to common sense.
And to better understand the fear of God, Psalm 119 also refers to the opposite, that is, it mentions the hardness of heart. This is why in one passage the Psalm refers to the opposition between the fear of God and the hardness of heart with these words: "Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart. Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law" Psalm 119:69-70.
The arrogant, who only practice the most furious selfishness, despise the law and its precepts, because they ask themselves what they gain by following them; on the other hand, the devout, guided by common sense, remain faithful to the prescriptions, explains the Psalm, and thus the opposition between sensible and foolish men arises as expressed in the passage of the song. In a world given over to sin and oppression, the hard-hearted lay traps for the upright man, the Psalm expresses, but wise men in the face of this situation can put their trust in the Lord and his salvation. Like David, who saw his life endangered numerous times and emerged triumphant.

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