Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him. ¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear? ¹⁵ The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

Job 2:7-10

So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Job 7:14-15

Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,

Job 10:15-17

If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

Psalm 30:9-10

What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.

Psalm 38:2-4

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

Psalm 42:10-11

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 55:3

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

Psalm 55:5

Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day of my trouble I sought LORD. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 109:22

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed.

Romans 5:3-5

And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

Romans 8:35-37

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

James 1:2

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

1 Peter 1:6

In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,