Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
KJV
Mœror in corde viri humiliabit illum, et sermone bono lætificabitur.
Vulgate
φοβερὸς λόγος καρδίαν ταράσσει ἀνδρὸς δικαίου, ἀγγελία δὲ ἀγαθὴ εὐφραίνει αὐτόν.
LXX
Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.
ASV
דְּאָגָ֣ה בְ/לֶב אִ֣ישׁ יַשְׁחֶ֑/נָּה וְ/דָבָ֖ר ט֣וֹב יְשַׂמְּחֶֽ/נָּה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
דְאָגָ֑ה
d'gh
noun · 6×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
י
y
noun · 591×
יִשְׂמְחוּ
yshmchv
verb · 153×
יִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ
yshtchv
verb · 174×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Chr 32:8 — With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- 2Cor 2:4 — 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.
- Isa 50:4 — 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
- Jer 52:32 — And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
- Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
- Neh 2:1 — 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
- Phil 2:26 — For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
- Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Prov 14:10 — The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
- Prov 15:13 — A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
- Prov 15:13 — A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
- Prov 15:15 — All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
- Prov 15:23 — A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
- Prov 16:24 — Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- Prov 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- Prov 18:14 — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
- Prov 25:11 — A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
- Prov 27:9 — Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
- Ps 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Ps 42:11 — 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.
- Zech 1:13 — And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.