How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded. ¹⁴ A good stomach driveth away a man's disease; but when the spirit is vexed, who may abide it? ¹⁵ A wise heart laboureth for knowledge; and a prudent ear seeketh understanding.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but an unquiet mind maketh it heavy.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart maketh a lusty age; but a sorrowful mind drieth up the bones.

Job 1:20-21

Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Job 2:7-10

So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

Job 7:14-15

then troublest thou me with dreams - and makest me so afraid through visions

Job 10:15-17

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

Psalm 30:9-10

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down into the pit? Shall the dust give thanks unto thee? Or shall it declare thy truth?

Psalm 32:3-4

For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining.

Psalm 38:2-4

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Psalm 42:10-11

My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth, daily saying unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

Psalm 55:3

The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me.

Psalm 55:5

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and a horrible dread hath overwhelmed me.

Psalm 77:2-3

In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.

Psalm 88:14-16

LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

Psalm 109:22

O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 147:3

He healeth the contrite in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

And he took with him Peter, James, and John, and he began to wax abashed and to be in an agony.

Romans 5:3-5

Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,

Romans 8:35-37

Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?

2 Corinthians 1:12

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

2 Corinthians 2:7

So that now contrariwise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me.

James 1:2

My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

1 Peter 1:6

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,