Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. ¹⁴ The spirit of a man can endure his sickness,
But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?
¹⁵ An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Job 2:7-10

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 7:14-15

then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 10:15-17

If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.

Psalm 30:9-10

"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 32:3-4

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:2-4

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.

Psalm 42:10-11

As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"

Psalm 55:3

because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Psalm 55:5

Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalm 109:22

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.

Romans 5:3-5

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Romans 8:35-37

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

1 Peter 1:6

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,