Proverbs 18:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ A man's spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit who can bear?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a wounded spirit who can bear?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The human spirit sustains a sick person, but who can bear a broken spirit?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The spirit of a man sustains his weakness. Yet who can sustain a spirit that is easily angered?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?

Proverbs 18:14 Cross References

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Psalm 109:22

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 55:3

by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

Psalm 55:5

Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

Exodus 6:9

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:22

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials,

1 Peter 1:6

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials,