24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: …
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24)The pleasant words here commended must be those which the heart of the wise teaches, and adds learning to (Prov. 16:23), words of seasonable advice, instruction, and comfort, words taken from God’s word, for that is it which Solomon had learned from his father to account sweeter than honey and the honey-comb , Ps. 19:10. These words, to those that know how to relish them, 1. Are pleasant. They are…
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