Proverbs 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 3:8 —

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Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Psalms 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Job 21:24
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason:— I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Prov. 3:7): “ Fear the Lord, as your sovereign Lord and Master; be ruled in every thing by your religion and subject to the divine will.” This must be, 1. A humble subjection: Be not wise in thy own eyes. Note, There is not a greater en…

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

(vv. 8)

8. It--This conduct. health--(Compare Margin). to thy navel--for all the organs of nourishment. marrow--(Compare Margin). bones--frame of body. True piety promotes bodily health.