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Proverbs 17:22

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

I said of laughter, *It is foolishness;* and of mirth, *What does it accomplish?*