Proverbs 17:22

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

A joyful soul maketh liking age; a sorrowful spirit maketh dry bones.

Cross References

Psalm 22:15

My virtue dried as a tilestone, and my tongue cleaved to my cheeks; and thou hast brought forth me into the dust of death.

Proverbs 12:25

Mourning in the heart of a just [or rightwise] man shall make him meek; and he shall be made glad by a good word.

Proverbs 15:13

A joyful heart maketh glad the face; the spirit is cast down in the mourning of soul.

Proverbs 16:24

Words well-set together is a comb of honey; health of bones is the sweetness of soul.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man sustaineth his feebleness; but who may sustain a spirit light to be wroth?

Ecclesiastes 2:2

And laughing I areckoned error, and I said to joy, What art thou, deceived in vain?

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary ye rather forgive and comfort, lest peradventure he that is such a manner man, be swallowed up, [or be sopped up, or despair], by more great heaviness.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sorrow that is after God, worketh penance into steadfast health; but sorrow of the world worketh death.