Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame. ¹⁴ The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it? ¹⁵ An intelligent {mind} will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

Job 2:7-10

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

Job 6:4

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 7:14-15

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

Job 10:15-17

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

Psalm 30:9-10

"What gain [is there] in my {death}, in my going down into [the] pit? Will [the] dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

Psalm 38:2-4

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

Psalm 42:10-11

[As] with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day}, "Where [is] your God?"

Psalm 55:3

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

Psalm 55:5

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

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

Psalm 109:22

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

Psalm 147:3

[He is] the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

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

Romans 5:3-5

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

Romans 8:35-37

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

James 1:2

Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,

1 Peter 1:6

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,