Proverbs 3:8 (BSB)
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:8
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:7-12: We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: - I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your sovereign Lord and Master; be ruled in every thing by your religion and subject to the divine will." This must be, 1. A humble subjection: Be not wise in thy own eyes.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:8: It shall be health to thy navel,.... That part of the body which is the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the bowels and inward parts, which being sound, the body is in health; and these may be put for the whole body: and so the Septuagint version renders it, "to thy body"; and this may be put for the whole person.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:8: 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.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 3:8: It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. (e) By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual.