A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
Moshe spoke so to the children of Yisra'el, but they didn't listen to Moshe for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,