A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory o
So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.