Proverbs 3:8
If you do that, your body will be healthy/strong; it will be like medicine for you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
In Context
7Do not be proud of being wise. Instead, revere Yahweh and turn away from doing evil.
9Honor Yahweh by what you do with your money; and by giving him the first part of your harvest.
Cross References
Job 21:24Their bodies are fat; their bones are strong.
Proverbs 4:22because you will have [PRS] a good life and good health if you search for them and find them.
Isaiah 1:6It is as though [MET] from the soles/bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads nothing is healthy; there are only open wounds and cuts and sores that have not been cleaned or bandaged, and no olive oil has been put on them to heal them.
Ezekiel 16:4It is as though [MET] on the day that you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and your body was not washed in water, and it was not rubbed with salt or wrapped in strips of cloth, like Israeli babies always are.
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 →