Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, 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.
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 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 hard worker shall bear rule, but the lazy shall be under service. 25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad. 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
And it happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine was before him. And I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence before.
Psalm 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Psalm 42:11
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share in its joy.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but gladness of heart is a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.
Zechariah 1:13
And Jehovah answered the angel who talked with me with good words, comfortable words.
Mark 14:33-34
And He took with Him Peter and James and John. And He began to be greatly amazed, and to be very heavy.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.