THEOSISProverbs 16:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
צוּף־דְּ֭בַשׁ אִמְרֵי־נֹ֑עַם מָת֥וֹק לַ֝נֶּפֶשׁ וּמַרְפֵּ֥א לָעָֽצֶם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 12:18There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Prov 24:13Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
- Prov 24:14So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.
- Prov 4:22For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
- Prov 25:11To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
- Prov 25:12As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.
- Prov 3:8For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.
- Prov 23:16And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.