Proverbs 24:14
Thus shall you perceive wisdom in your soul: for if you find it, your end shall be good, and hope shall not fail you.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
13My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that your throat may be sweetened.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:10For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,
Proverbs 22:18that you may know that they are good: and if you lay them to heart, they shall also gladden you on your lips.
Jeremiah 15:16consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.
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 →