Proverbs 17:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth 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.

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 up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

Proverbs 15:13

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

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

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.