Verse 25

Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary `by' a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 Joy `is' to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 Apples of gold in imagery of silver, `Is' the word spoken at its fit times.
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.
  • Zech 1:13 : 13 And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words.
  • Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the afflicted `are' evil, And gladness of heart `is' a perpetual banquet.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. 5 And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; 6 sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that `is' by the more part, 7 so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;
  • Neh 2:1-2 : 1 And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine `is' before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him; 2 and the king saith to me, `Wherefore `is' thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy, 34 and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul -- to death; remain here, and watch.'