English Standard Version
Proverbs 3:8
8It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
- New International Version (NIV)This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
- New King James Version (NKJV)It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
Context of Proverbs 3:8
6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 9Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:8 word by word
רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְשָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝שִׁקּ֗וּי לְעַצְמוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 3:8
- Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
- Proverbs 16:24Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
- Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
- Jeremiah 30:12"For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
- Ezekiel 16:4And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
- Job 21:24his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8It shall be health to thy navel - We need not puzzle ourselves to find out what we may suppose to be a more delicate meaning for the original word שר shor than navel; for I am satisfied a more proper cannot be found. It is well known that it is by the umbilical cord that the fetus receives its nourishment all the time it is in the womb of the mother. It receives nothing by the mouth, nor by any other means: by this alone all nourishment is received, and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Navel - The central region of the body is taken as the representative of all the vital organs. For “health” we should read healing, or, as in the marg. There is probably a reference to the local applications used by the surgery of the period as means of healing.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul, but to the health of the body. Worldly wealth is but poor substance, yet, such as it is, we must honour God with it; and those that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with. Should the Lord visit us with trials and sickness…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Healing and strength mean enjoying physical energy as God's reward for following the path of wisdom.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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