The result: 'This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.' The promise is physical, bodily: the person who fears the Lord and avoids evil experiences health and vitality. 'Health' (riphut) suggests wholeness, healing; 'nourishment to your bones' indicates strength and vigor from within. This verse reflects the biblical conviction that righteousness has physical as well as spiritual consequences. The body is not separate from the soul but part of the whole person. Those aligned with divine order experience flourishing in body as well as spirit. This may reflect the reality that anxiety and guilt corrode health while peace and right living strengthen it. The promise appeals to the body's hunger for health and wholeness, reorienting it toward the path that actually yields such goods.

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