The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a broken spirit?
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.
so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me.
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they bring down trouble upon me, And in wrath they hate me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.