25 Anxiety weighs down the heart,(A)
    but a kind word cheers it up.

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25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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25 (A)Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,
But (B)a good word makes it glad.

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed(A) spirit dries up the bones.(B)

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

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22 A (A)merry heart [a]does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:22 Or makes medicine even better

14 The human spirit can endure in sickness,
    but a crushed spirit who can bear?(A)

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

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14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness,
But who can bear a broken spirit?

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