Proverbs 3:8
8. It—This conduct.
health—(Compare Margin). to thy navel—for all the organs of nourishment. marrow—(Compare Margin). bones—frame of body. True piety promotes bodily health.Isaiah 58:11
11. satisfy . . . in drought— (Isa 41:17, 18). Literally, "drought," that is, parched places [MAURER].
make fat—rather, "strengthen" [NOYES]. "Give thee the free use of thy bones" [JEROME], or, "of thy strength" [HORSLEY]. watered garden—an Oriental picture of happiness. fail not—Hebrew, "deceive not"; as streams that disappoint the caravan which had expected to find water, as formerly, but find it dried up (Job 6:15-17).
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