Proverbs 17:22

English Standard Version 2016

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

A man’s spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

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

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”