Proverbs 16:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 24:13-14
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: …
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
Proverbs 23:16
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. (Compare Pr 15:26). Gentle, kind words, by soothing the mind, give the body health.