A man’s spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.