Proverbs 3:8

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 is." 1 Timothy 4:8.

to thy navel So R.V. The LXX. give to thy body, τῷ σώματί σου (comp. Proverbs 4:22), reading, as Ewald conjectures, a Heb. word which differs by a single letter (which has dropped out) from our present Heb. text Their rendering, however, may be only a free translation, of the nature of a gloss, of the Heb. as it now stands.

marrow Lit. moistening. Vulg. irrigatio. The moisture and freshness of a healthy and well-nourished body are indicated. Comp. "The marrow of his bones is moistened," Job 21:24, R.V., and for the contrary effect of disease and suffering, Job 30:30; Psalms 102:3.