Proverbs 3:8

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…

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…

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

I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your…

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

"Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now…