The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Fearfulness and trembling are come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity on me, and in wrath they hate me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they listened not to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.