8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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. …
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…
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