Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
In Context
23The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
25There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Cross References
Psalms 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
Proverbs 3:8It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:18There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 15:26Evil devices are an abomination to LORD, but pleasant words [are] pure.
Proverbs 24:13My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste,
Proverbs 27:9Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:24
23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. Solomon had commended eloquence, or the sweetness of the lips ( v. 21 ), and seemed to prefer it before wisdom; but here he corrects himself, as it were, and shows that unless there be a good treasure within to support the eloquence it is worth little. Wisdom in the heart is the main matter. 1. It is this that directs us in speaking, that teaches the mouth what to speak, and when, and how, so that what is spoken may be proper, and… Read the whole commentary →