Proverbs 17:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up 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.

Proverbs 17:22 Cross References

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up.

Proverbs 18:14

The human spirit will endure sickness, but a broken spirit—who can bear?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by even worse grief.

Psalm 22:15

my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”