Proverbs 3:8

Modern

This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.

Traditional

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Literal

Healing it will be to your navel, and refreshment to your bones.

Latin

…sanitas quippe erit umbilico tuo, et irrigatio ossium tuorum.

Hebrew

English

This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.

Healing and strength mean enjoying physical energy as God's reward for following the path of wisdom.

The Lord blesses people who trust him and seek his guidance. His correction helps those who follow him.

Theme notes and profiles

Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Job 21:24
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
Ezekiel 16:4–5
On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
Jeremiah 30:12–13
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.