Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Holman Bible
but a good word cheers it up.
International Standard Version
A person's anxiety weighs down his heart, but an appropriate word is encouraging.
A Conservative Version
Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.
American Standard Version
Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.
Amplified
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
But a good (encouraging) word makes it glad.
Bible in Basic English
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
Darby Translation
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
Julia Smith Translation
Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it
King James 2000
Heaviness in the heart of man makes him stoop: but a good word makes him glad.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Anxiety in the heart of a man will weigh him down, but a good word will cheer him.
Modern King James verseion
Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Heaviness discourageth the heart of man, but a good word maketh it glad again.
NET Bible
Anxiety in a person's heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.
New Heart English Bible
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
The Emphasized Bible
When anxiety is in the heart of a man, one may bow him down, but, a good word, maketh him glad.
Webster
Heaviness in the heart of man depresseth it: but a good word maketh it glad.
World English Bible
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 12:25
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
24 The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary. 25 Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad. 26 The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!
Isaiah 50:4
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.
Proverbs 16:24
Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Proverbs 17:22
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
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;
Psalm 38:6
I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
Psalm 42:11
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!
Proverbs 12:18
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil, And gladness of heart is a perpetual banquet.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
Proverbs 25:11
Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times.
Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.
Zechariah 1:13
And Jehovah answereth the messenger, who is speaking with me, good words, comfortable words.
Mark 14:33-34
and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy,
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
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.