8 This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
8 It will be healing to your flesh
8 Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life!
8 It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.
8 Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
30 Light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.
30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes
30 A twinkle in the eye means joy in the heart, and good news makes you feel fit as a fiddle.
30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, And a good report makes the bones healthy.
30 A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health.
(Read Proverbs 15:30)
How delightful to the humbled soul to hear the good report of salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ!
371 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
371 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
371 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley;
371 God grabbed me. God's Spirit took me up and sat me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones.
371 The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
371 The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones.
(Read Ezekiel 37:1-14)
No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored to life. The wind was an emblem of the Spirit of God, and represented his quickening powers. The vision was to encourage the desponding Jews; to predict both their restoration after the captivity, and also their recovery from their present and long-continued dispersion. It was also a clear intimation of the resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and grace of God, in the conversion of the most hopeless sinners to himself. Let us look to Him who will at last open our graves, and bring us forth to judgment, that He may now deliver us from sin, and put his Spirit within us, and keep us by his power, through faith, unto salvation.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 3:8
Commentary on Proverbs 3:7-12
(Read Proverbs 3:7-12)
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, but to the health of the body. Worldly wealth is but poor substance, yet, such as it is, we must honour God with it; and those that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with. Should the Lord visit us with trials and sickness, let us not forget that the exhortation speaks to us as to children, for our good. We must not faint under an affliction, be it ever so heavy and long, not be driven to despair, or use wrong means for relief. The father corrects the son whom he loves, because he loves him, and desires that he may be wise and good. Afflictions are so far from doing God's children any hurt, that, by the grace of God, they promote their holiness.