Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 3:8
Navel — To thy body, which is signified by one part of it. Marrow — Which is the nourishment and strength of the bones.
Navel — To thy body, which is signified by one part of it. Marrow — Which is the nourishment and strength of the bones.
Verse Proverbs 3:8. _IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL_] We need not puzzle ourselves to find out what we may suppose to be a more _delicate_ meaning for the original word שר _shor_ than _navel_; for I...
NAVEL - The central region of the body is taken as the representative of all the vital organs. For “health” we should read healing, or, as in the marg. There is probably a reference to the local appli...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21)...
FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...
HEALTH. healing. Occurs only here. NAVEL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part) for the whole body (App-6). But Septuagint and Syriac, following. different spelling, read "body". MARROW. mo...
Fourth Address. Chap. Proverbs 3:1-10 Be obedient to my instruction, so shalt thou live long and prosper (Proverbs 3:1). Trust, not in thyself, but in God (Proverbs 3:5). Seek His direction ...
_health_ By an eternal law the moral condition and the physical are linked together; the _mens sana_promotes the _corpus sanum_. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life t...
HEALTH TO THY NAVEL— Many expositors, after the LXX, render this, _It shall be health to thy flesh,_ or _to thy body,_ instead of _thy navel:_ but the learned Schultens has shewn that the word is prop...
CHAPTER 3 TEXT Proverbs 3:1-12 1. My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee. 3. Let not kind...
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL, AND MARROW TO THY BONES - "it," namely, the obedient "fear of the Lord" just described (). Plasters and em...
For navel read 'flesh,' as at Proverbs 4:22. This change only requires the addition of a single letter, and it gives us the pair,' flesh and bones,' which in biblical language make up the body (Genesi...
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profit...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 V1 My son, do not forget my law. Keep my commands in your heart. v
Sometimes our wrong ideas cause illnesses. For example, excess alcohol will make us ill. But God’s wisdom does not hurt us. God is kind to us and he helps us. He cares about our bodies. He also cares...
NAVEL. — As being the centre, and so the most important part of the body. (Comp. the epithet applied to Delphi, “navel of the earth.”) MARROW. — Literally, _watering: i.e.,_ refreshing. (Comp. Job 21...
רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְ שָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝ שִׁקּ֗וּי...
CHAPTER 4 THE EARTHLY REWARDS OF WISDOM Proverbs 3:1 THE general teaching of these nine introductory Chapter s is that the "ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are taug...
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Prove
THE RESULTS OF TRUSTING JEHOVAH Proverbs 3:1-12 How replete with helpful instruction on the policy of life is this paragraph! The _young_ of both sexes are invited to be merciful in their judgments...
As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...
It shall be health to thy (e) navel, and marrow to thy bones. (e) By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual....
_Bones. Thou shalt enjoy perfect health._...
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL,.... That part of the body which is the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the bowels and inward parts, which being sound, the body is in health; and these may...
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Ver. 8. _It shall be health to thy navel._] That is, Thou shalt be in good plight both for the outward and inward man: Thy bones full of marr...
_Be not wise in thine own eyes_ Be not puffed up with a vain conceit of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all thine affairs, without direction and assistance from God, or...
It shall be health to thy navel, considered as the center of the entire body, AND MARROW TO THY BONES, refreshing the entire organism with vigor and strength; for such is the effect of a good conscien...
OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...
HEALTH: _ Heb._ medicine MARROW: _ Heb._ watering, or moistening...
7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul,...
TO THY NAVEL, i.e. to thy body, which is signified by the navel, which is a noble and useful part of the body, by which the infant receives nourishment in the womb, and which is the ligament or bond b...
Proverbs 3:8 health H7500 flesh H8270 strength H8250 bones H6106 shall - Proverbs 4:22,...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOLLOWED BY THE REQUIREMENT TO TRUST IN YHWH, TO FEAR YHWH AND TO HONOUR YHWH (PROVERBS 3:1). Solomon here speaks of wisdom and understanding in terms of ‘my torah -- my comma...
Proverbs 3:7 I. The text may be paraphrased and expanded thus: God has taught you by various ways by your own experience and that of others; above all, by the warnings of conscience and the voice of r...
CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a blessing. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and put themselves unde...
Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...
_My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._ USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1). Int...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:8. NAVEL, “body” or “muscles.” MARROW, literally “refreshing,” “moistening,” in contrast to the condition described in Psalms 32:3. PROVERBS 3:11. DESPITE NOT, or “loathe...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the...
Chapter 3 continues to My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs 3:1-2). Now these are the three. And...
Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 16:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 30:12; Jeremiah 30:13
LEST WE FORGET Proverbs 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a danger that w...