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Proverbs 17:22

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

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A merry heart makes a cheerful Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor): but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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

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

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

So that contrariwise you2f [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd (piece of broken pottery); and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and youi have brought me into the dust of death.

Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of gladness, What does it?