Adam Clarke Commentary - Proverbs 17:22

Adam Clarke Commentary - Proverbs 17:22 - 17:22

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Proverbs 17:22 - 17:22

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17:1 - 17:1
17:3 - 17:3
17:4 - 17:4
17:5 - 17:5
17:7 - 17:7
17:8 - 17:8
17:10 - 17:10
17:12 - 17:12
17:13 - 17:13
17:14 - 17:14
17:17 - 17:17
17:18 - 17:18
17:19 - 17:19
17:22 - 17:22
17:23 - 17:23
17:24 - 17:24
17:26 - 17:26
17:28 - 17:28

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine - Instead of גהה gehah, a medicine, it appears that the Chaldee and Syriac had read in their copies גוה gevah, the body, as they translate in this way. This makes the apposition here more complete: “A merry heart doeth good to the body; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” Nothing has such a direct tendency to ruin health and waste out life as grief, anxiety, fretfulness, bad tempers, etc. All these work death.