Proverbs 17:22

Lighthouse Bible 2006

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

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My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.

Sorrow in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.

A merry heart makes a cheerful appearance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

I said of laughter, It is senseless: and of gladness, What does it do?

So that on the contrary you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, so that he will not perhaps be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.