Proverbs 17:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²² A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² 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.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Common English Bible

²² A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, *It is foolishness;* and of mirth, *What does it accomplish?*

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.