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Proverbs 16:24 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. "

Proverbs 16:24

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22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.

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The pleasant words praised here must be the kind that a wise heart teaches and that add learning (Proverbs 16:23). They are words of timely advice, instruction, and comfort, words taken from God’s word. That is what Solomon learned from his father to count sweeter than honey and the honeycomb (Psalm 19:10).

To those who know how to enjoy them, these words are pleasant. They are like honeycomb, sweet to the soul, because they let a person taste that the Lord is gracious. Nothing is more pleasing to the new self, the life renewed by God, than God’s word and words drawn from it (Psalm 119:103).

These words are also health-giving. Many things are pleasant but bring no real good, but these pleasant words are health to the bones, meaning to the inner person, as well as sweet to the soul. They make the bones, which sin has broken and thrown out of place, rejoice. Since the bones are the body’s strength, God’s good word is a means of spiritual strength and a cure for the sicknesses that weaken us.

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Proverbs 16:1

"The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD."

Proverbs 16:2

"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives."

Proverbs 16:3

"Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed."

Proverbs 16:4

"The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil."

Proverbs 16:5

"Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; they shall certainly not be unpunished."

Proverbs 16:6

"By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."

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