Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it 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.
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 ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work. 25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad. 26 The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
And it came about 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 never before been sad when the king was present.
Psalm 42:11
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
Proverbs 25:11
A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Zechariah 1:13
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
Mark 14:33-34
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.