Proverbs Chapter 3 verse 22 Holy Bible
So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy neck.
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So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.
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so shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace unto thy neck.
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So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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So they will be life to your soul, And grace for your neck.
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And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - So shall they he life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. So shall they be (n'yikva); and they shall be. The "soul" and "neck" stand for the whole man in his twofold nature, internal and external. Life is in its highest and widest sense given to the soul (see Proverbs 2:16, 18; Proverbs 4:22; Proverbs 8:35), and favour is conferred on the man, i.e. he becomes acceptable to his neighbours, if he has wisdom. The latter expression is very similar to Proverbs 1:9, where the same promise is expressed, "grace" (hon) being equivalent to "ornament of grace" (liv'yath hon). Others understand "grace to thy neck" (hon l'garg grotheyka), as gratia guttturis, in the sense of "grace of the lips," as in Psalm 45:3 and Proverbs 22:11, that is, as the grace of speaking, power of eloquent and effective utterance (Gejerus, Bayne, Lapide). It is better to take it as referring to the adornment of the personal character, and so by metonymy of the favour and kindness which it procures.