²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

¹⁴ So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

²² For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

¹⁶ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

⁸ It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.