Charles Ellicott Commentary Proverbs 4:22

"For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh." — Proverbs 4:22 (ASV)

For they are life ...—Compare 1 Timothy 4:8: Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, (the highest happiness that man can attain to now, peace of mind), and of that which is to come, the assurance of a joyful resurrection.