Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 applications used by the surgery of the period as means of healing.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 3:8:
Proverbs 4:22
Isaiah 1:6
Isaiah 65:20
Isaiah 66:14
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