Proverbs 17:22 - The Scriptures 2009

²² A rejoicing heart causes good healing, But a stricken spirit dries the bones.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. [Prov. 12:25; 15:13, 15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Common English Bible

²² A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 Cross References

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried like a potsherd, And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws; And to the dust of death You are appointing Me.

Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes good a face, But by sorrow of heart the spirit is stricken.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweet to the being, and healing to the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness, But who does bear a broken spirit?

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of rejoicing, “What does it do?”

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For sadness according to Elohim works repentance to deliverance, not to be regretted, but the sadness of the world works death.