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Proverbs 3:8

Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Navel - The central region of the body is taken as the representative of all the vital organs. For “health” we should…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Proverbs 3:7-12

We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: -

I. We must live in a humble and…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

health By an eternal law the moral condition and the physical are linked together; the mens sanapromotes the corpus…