THEOSISProverbs 3:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.
רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְשָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝שִׁקּ֗וּי לְעַצְמוֹתֶֽיךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 4:22For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
- Ps 147 (146/147):3
- Job 21:24His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
- Prov 16:24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Jer 30:12For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.
- Jer 30:13There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.
- Ezek 16:4And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts.
- Ezek 16:5No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.