Nehemiah 2:2

American King James Version (1999)

Why the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

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And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look you so sadly to day?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.