Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 16:24 · King James Version

In other versions

Pleasant words are `as' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
ASV
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
BBE
Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
DBY
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
WEB
Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
YLT
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
ENG
Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
WBT
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
BSB

²²Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

²³The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

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

²⁵There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

²⁶He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.