Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 4:22

For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Ninth Address. Chap. 4. Pro 4:20-27

22. their flesh ] Lit. his flesh, i.e. the flesh of every one of them. This individualising the teaching, by a sudden change from the plural to the singular number occurs again, Pro 3:18.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Health – See the Pro 3:8 note.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

22. health . . . fleshbypreserving from vices destructive of health.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they [are] life unto those that find them,…. The words or doctrines of Christ, whose type Solomon was, are to be found in the field of the Scriptures, by diligent searching for them; and being found, they are the means of spiritual life, and of maintaining it, and of showing the way, and bringing unto eternal life; see Joh 6:63;

and health to all their flesh; the whole man, soul and body, as they are the means of preserving the body from many diseases, which intemperance, lust, and luxury, lead unto, and are curbed by these; so of healing the various diseases of the soul; and, however, of directing to a panacea for them, to the blood of Christ, which is the true balm of Gilead, and he the physician of souls. Moreover, the doctrines of the Gospel are the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus; they are sound, salutary, and healthful, and serve to keep the soul in good plight, and the body too. The Septuagint render it, “to all flesh”: that is, to all men; but this is not true in fact; for to some the Gospel of Christ, through contempt and rejection of it, is the savour of death unto death.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(22) For they are life . . .Comp. 1Ti. 4:8, Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, (the highest happiness that man can attain to now, peace of mind,) and of that which is to come, the assurance of a joyful resurrection.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

22. They are life The pure words of the instructor are healthful and life-giving; a healing medicine for all the woes which flesh is heir to. Compare Pro 3:8, and Pro 3:2; Pro 3:16; Pro 4:13.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pro 4:22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Ver. 22. For they are life. ] See Trapp on “ Pro 3:22 “ See Trapp on “ Pro 3:16 “

And health unto all their flesh ] Sin is the cause of sickness. 1Co 11:20 “Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” Joh 5:14 But “the joy of the Lord is a man’s strength”; Neh 8:10 and such “a merry heart doeth good, like a medicine.” Pro 17:22 As sin is a universal sickness, Isa 1:5-6 like those diseases wherein physicians say are corruptio totius substantiae, a corruption of the whole substance, as the heretic, &c.; so grace is a Catholicon, a general cure, like the herb Panace , whdch is said to be good for all diseases; whence also, saith Pliny, it hath its name. a

a A et .

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

health = healing.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

life: Pro 4:4, Pro 4:10

health: Heb. medicine, Pro 3:8, *marg. Pro 12:18, Jer 33:6

Reciprocal: Deu 32:47 – General Pro 3:22 – life Pro 4:6 – love Pro 16:24 – health 1Pe 3:10 – love

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

4:22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their {i} flesh.

(i) That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes