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Pro_16:24 Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Ver. 24. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb.] Dainty and delicious, such as "the preacher set himself to search out"; {Ecc_12:10} such as his father David found God’s words to be; {Psa_119:103} "wells of salvation." {Isa_12:3} "Breasts of consolation"; {Isa_66:11} the honey drops of Christ’s mouth. {Son_5:16} Oh, hang upon his holy lips, as they did! {Luk_19:48} Hast thou found honey with Samson? Eat it as he did. {Pro_25:16} Eat God’s book as John did; {Rev_10:9} find fatness and sweetness in it. {Psa_63:5} Get "joy and gladness" out of it. {Psa_51:8} And if at any time the word, in searching our wounds, put us to pain, as honey will cause pain to exulcerate parts, let us bear it, and not be like children, who, though they like honey well, yet will they not endure to have it come near their lips when they have sore mouths.
Sweet to the soul, health to the bones,] i.e., Satisfactory to the mind and medicinal also to the body, which many times follows the temperament of the mind. Alphonsus, King of Sicily, is said to have recovered from a dangerous disease by the pleasure that he took in reading Quintus Curtius, and some others in like sort by reading Livy, Aventine, &c. But these were "physicians of no value" to that of David. "Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction." {Psa_119:92} Look how those that are fallen into a swoon may be fetched again with cold water sprinkled on their faces, or with hot water poured down their throats. So those that are troubled in mind may by patience and comfort of the Scriptures recover hope.