Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him. ¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear? ¹⁵ The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job arose, and tore his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,

Job 2:7-10

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

Job 6:4

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

Job 7:14-15

Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

Job 10:15-17

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction;

Psalm 30:9-10

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.

Psalm 38:2-4

For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down.

Psalm 42:10-11

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your 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 wrath they hate me.

Psalm 55:5

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

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your 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 took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed, and to be very troubled;

Romans 5:3-5

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

Romans 8:35-37

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:7

So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

James 1:2

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials;

1 Peter 1:6

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials: