Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.
New American Standard Bible
But a
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work. 25 Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad. 26 A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!
Isaiah 50:4
Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
Now I was cupbearer to the king. And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not [formerly] been sad in
Psalm 38:6
I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.
Psalm 42:11
Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Zechariah 1:13
And LORD answered the agent who talked with me with good words, comforting words.
Mark 14:33-34
And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.