Proverbs 24:14
So, too, is the doctrine of wisdom to your soul. When you have found it, you will have hope in the end, and your hope shall not perish.
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13My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb, because it is so sweet to your throat.
15Do not lie in wait, and do not seek impiety in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:10If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,
Proverbs 22:18It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips,
Jeremiah 15:16I discovered your words and I consumed them. And your word became to me as the gladness and joy of my heart. For your name has been invoked over me, O Lord, the God of hosts.
James 1:25But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:14-15
13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the… Read the whole commentary →