The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but who can bear a stricken spirit?
A joyful heart makes a good face, but by pain of heart the spirit is stricken.
A joyful heart makes good healing, but a stricken spirit dries the bones.
in which you exult; yet a little while, if it is needful, having been grieved in many various kinds of trials,
My brothers count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows.
So that on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort such a one, that he not be swallowed up by the excessive grief.
For I am an afflicted and needy one, and my heart is pierced within me.
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
Fear and trembling come on me; and horror has covered me.
from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked one; for they shake iniquity over me, and in anger they hate me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And they did not listen to Moses, from anguish of spirit and from hard bondage.