"Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad."
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And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Heaviness in the heart of man depresseth it: but a good word maketh it glad.
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a kind word makes it glad.
Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.