New English Translation
Proverbs 16:24
24Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- New International Version (NIV)Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
Context of Proverbs 16:24
22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools. 23A wise person’s heart makes his speech wise and it adds persuasiveness to his words. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. 25There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death. 26A laborer’s appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work.
Read all of Proverbs 16Proverbs 16:24 word by word
צוּף־דְּ֭בַשׁ אִמְרֵי־נֹ֑עַם מָת֥וֹק לַ֝נֶּפֶשׁ וּמַרְפֵּ֥א לָעָֽצֶם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 16:24
- Proverbs 12:18Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
- Proverbs 15:23A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time – how good it is!
- Proverbs 23:16my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
- Proverbs 25:11Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
- Proverbs 27:9Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one’s friend from sincere counsel.
- Deuteronomy 32:2My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.
- John 20:19On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
- Proverbs 24:13Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
- Psalms 19:10They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
- Psalms 119:103Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!
- Jeremiah 15:16As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.
- Proverbs 3:8This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your inner self.
- Proverbs 4:22for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.
Commentaries on Proverbs 16:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Pleasant words are as a honey-comb - The honey of which is sweeter than that which has been expressed from it, and has a much finer flavour before it has come in contact with the atmospheric air.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Honey took its place not only among the luxuries, but among the medicines of the Israelites. This two-fold use made it all the more suitable to be an emblem both of the true Wisdom which is also true obedience, and of the “pleasant words” in which that Wisdom speaks.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24Verse 24 The word of God cures the diseases that weaken our souls.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. (Compare Pr 15:26). Gentle, kind words, by soothing the mind, give the body health.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 16
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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