The human spirit will endure sickness, but a broken spirit—who can bear?
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,
My brothers and sisters, whenever you face various trials, consider it all joy,
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by even worse grief.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me.
Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.
Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.