Proverbs 17:22 - King James 2000

²² A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries 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; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

Proverbs 12:25

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

Proverbs 15:13

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What use is it?

2 Corinthians 2:7

So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10

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