Proverbs 3:8
Certainly, it shall be health to your navel, and refreshment to your bones.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
In Context
7Do not seem wise to yourself. Fear God, and withdraw from evil.
9Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits,
Cross References
Job 21:24His gut is full of fat and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those who find them and health to all that is flesh.
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot, even to the top of the head, there is no soundness within. Wounds and bruises and swelling sores: these are not bandaged, nor treated with medicine, nor soothed with oil.
Ezekiel 16:4And when you were born, on the day of your nativity, your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water for health, nor salted with salt, nor wrapped with cloths.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:8-13
Consecration to God. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord , and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. We have… Read the whole commentary →