Proverbs 18:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; 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 within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Psalm 109:22

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

Psalm 147:3

He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.

Psalm 55:3

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

Psalm 55:5

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

Exodus 6:9

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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.

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;

1 Peter 1:6

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold temptations,