Proverbs 3:8
For why health shall be in thy navel, and moisting of thy bones. (For that shall be health for thy body, or thy entrails, and moistening for thy bones.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
In Context
Cross References
Job 21:24His entrails be full of fatness; and his bones be moisted with marrow.
Proverbs 4:22For those be life to men finding those, and health of all flesh. (For they be life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.)
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot till to the noll, health is not therein; wound, and wanness, and beating swelling (that) is not bound about (or and swelling from a beating that is not bound up), neither cured by medicine, neither nursed with oil.
Ezekiel 16:4And when thou were born, thy navel was not cut away in the day of thy birth (or thy navel-string was not cut on the day of thy birth), and thou were not washed in water into health, neither salted with salt, neither wrapped in (swaddling) ‘clothes.
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 →