Proverbs 24:14
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
Cross References
Psalms 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
Proverbs 22:18for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will 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 →