Proverbs 24:14
So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to your soul, || If you have found that there is a posterity || And your hope is not cut off.
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In Context
13My son, eat honey that [is] good, || And the honeycomb [is] sweet to your palate.
Cross References
Psalms 19:11Also—Your servant is warned by them, “In keeping them [is] a great reward.”
Psalms 119:111I have inherited Your testimonies for all time, || For they [are] the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 2:10For wisdom comes into your heart, || And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Proverbs 22:18For they are pleasant when you keep them in your heart, || They are prepared together for your lips.
Jeremiah 15:16Your words have been found, and I eat them, || And Your word is to me for a joy, || And for the rejoicing of my heart, || For Your Name is called on me, O YHWH, God of Hosts.
James 1:25but he who looked into [the] perfect law—that of liberty, and continued there, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work—this one will be blessed in his doing.
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 →