Proverbs 18:14

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Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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Spirit

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell to the earth and worshipped;

So the accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and smote Job with a sore boil, from the sole of his foot, unto his crown.

He is healing the broken in heart, - and binding up their hurts.

And, not only so, but let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance.

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? -

For, our boasting, is, this, - the witness of our conscience, that, in sanctity and sincerity of God, and not in fleshly wisdom, but in God's favour, have we behaved ourselves in the world, - and more abundantly towards you.

And at once he said unto me - Sufficient for thee, is my favour, for, my power, in weakness, is made complete. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may spread a tent over me.

All Joy, account it, my brethren, whensoever ye fall in with, manifold, temptations, -

Wherein ye exult, though, for a little, just now, if needful, put to grief in manifold temptations,

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A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, - but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me:

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?

When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

With a crushing of my bones, have my adversaries reproached me, - While they keep saying unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Because of the noise of the enemy, By reason of the oppression of the lawless one, For they would let trouble drop upon me, And, in anger, would they entrap me.

In the day of my distress - unto My Lord, will I seek, My hand, by night, hath been outstretched and never once became slack, My soul, hath refused to be consoled;

Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou reject my soul? shouldst thou hide thy face from me?

For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.

And he taketh Peter and James and John with him, and began to be exceedingly amazed, and in great distress;

So that, on the contrary, ye should forgive and encourage, lest, by any means, by his excessive grief, such a one should be swallowed up.