PRO 16:24 Parallel View

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ULT A dripping of honey are words of pleasantness,
 ⇔ sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.

UST The pleasing things that people say are like a honeycomb:
⇔ they cause people to feel pleasant and healthy.

BSB  ⇔ Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
⇔ sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

OEB Winsome words are a honeycomb,
⇔ sweet to the soul and healing to the body.

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

NET Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
 ⇔ sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

LSV Sayings of pleasantness [are] a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

FBV Kind words are like a honeycomb—they taste sweet and are healthy for the body.

T4T  ⇔ Kind words are like honey [SIM]:
⇔ We enjoy them both, and both cause our bodies to be healthy/strong.

LEB • are a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

BBE Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

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

ASV Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,
 ⇔ Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

DRA Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

YLT Sayings of pleasantness [are] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

DBY Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.

RV Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

WBS Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

KJB Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
(Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. )

BB Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.
(Fayre words are an honey combe, a refresshyng of the mind, and health of the bones.)

GNV Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.
(Faire words are as an honey combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones. )

CB Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.
(Fayre words are an honey combe, a refreshinge of ye/you_all mind, and health of ye/you_all bones.)

WYC Wordis wel set togidere is a coomb of hony; helthe of boonys is the swetnesse of soule.
(Wordis well set together is a coomb of honey; health of boonys is the swetnesse of soule.)

LUT Die Reden des Freundlichen sind Honigseim, trösten die SeeLE und erfrischen die Gebeine.
(The Reden the Freundlichen are Honigseim, trösten the SeeLE and erfrischen the Gebeine.)

CLV Favus mellis composita verba; dulcedo animæ sanitas ossium.[fn]
(Favus mellis composita verba; dulcedo animæ sanitas ossium.)

16.24 Favus mellis composita verba, etc. Multi per eloquentiam, etc., usque ad quæ ex interna animæ dulcedine procedunt.

16.24 Favus mellis composita verba, etc. Multi per eloquentiam, etc., usque to which ex interna animæ dulcedine procedunt.

BRN Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.

BrLXX Κηρία μέλιτος λόγοι καλοί, γλύκασμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἴασις ψυχῆς.
(Kaʸria melitos logoi kaloi, glukasma de autou iasis psuⱪaʸs. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

צוּף־דְּ֭בַשׁ

Tsuf honey

The phrase dripping of honey refers to honeycomb, which is what bees store honey in, so that honey drips from it. However, here Solomon is using the phrase to refer to how pleasing words of pleasantness are. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly or use a simile. Alternate translation: “Extremely pleasing” or “Please like a honeycomb”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

אִמְרֵי־נֹ֑עַם

words pleasant

See how you translated words of pleasantness in 15:26.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

מָת֥וֹק לַ֝⁠נֶּפֶשׁ וּ⁠מַרְפֵּ֥א לָ⁠עָֽצֶם

sweet to_the,soul and,healing to_the,bones

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a clause would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “those words are sweet to the soul and healing to the bone”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

מָת֥וֹק לַ֝⁠נֶּפֶשׁ

sweet to_the,soul

Here, Solomon refers to a person feeling pleasant as if that person’s soul were a person who had tasted something sweet. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly or use a simile. Alternate translation: “pleasing a person” or “like something that tastes sweet to the soul”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וּ⁠מַרְפֵּ֥א לָ⁠עָֽצֶם

and,healing to_the,bones

Here, bone refers to a person’s whole body. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. See how you translated a similar use of bone in 15:30. Alternate translation: “healing to the body”

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