Proverbs 18:14

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רֽוּחַ־אִ֭ישׁ יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה מִ֣י יִשָּׂאֶֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

rûaḥ-ʾîš yəḵalkel maḥălēhû and-rûaḥ nəḵēʾāh who yiśśāʾennāh

Grammar Details

• *rûaḥ*: noun, feminine singular construct - spirit of
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/person
• *yəḵalkel*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - sustains/supports/endures
• *maḥălēhû*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sickness/illness
• *nəḵēʾāh*: verb, niphal participle, feminine singular - broken/wounded/stricken
• *yiśśāʾennāh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - will lift it up/bear it

Word Meanings

• *rûaḥ*: spirit/disposition/mind/breath
• *yəḵalkel*: sustains/supports/endures/bears
• *maḥălēhû*: his sickness/his illness/his infirmity
• *nəḵēʾāh*: broken/wounded/stricken/crushed
• *yiśśāʾennāh*: will lift it up/bear it/endure it/carry it

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:13 : 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Jas 1:2 : 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• 1 Pet 1:6 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• Ps 147:3 : 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
• Rom 5:3-5 : 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
• Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
• Job 1:20-21 : 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
• Job 2:7-9 : 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
• Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
• Job 7:14-15 : 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
• Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
• Ps 30:9-9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
• Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
• Ps 38:2-4 : 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
• Ps 42:10-11 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Ps 55:3 : 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
• Ps 55:5 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
• Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 88:14-16 : 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
• Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.