A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. [Prov. 12:25; 15:13, 15.]
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.
A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: 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 mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.