THEOSISProverbs 27:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
שֶׁ֣מֶן וּ֭קְטֹרֶת יְשַׂמַּֽח־לֵ֑ב וּמֶ֥תֶק רֵ֝עֵ֗הוּ מֵֽעֲצַת־נָֽפֶשׁ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 16:23The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.
- Prov 16:24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things.
- Ps 23 (22):5
- Ps 104 (103):15
- Prov 15:23A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.
- 2 Cor 2:15For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.
- 2 Cor 2:16To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?