Proverbs 4:22
For 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.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 3:8For 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.)
Proverbs 4:10My son, hear thou, and take my words (to heart); (so) that the years of (thy) life be multiplied to thee.
Jeremiah 33:6Lo! I shall close together to them a wound and health, (or But now, I shall close up their wounds, and give them health, or healing), and I shall make them whole, and I shall show to them the beseeching of peace and of truth;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →