Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ It is foolishness and shame to answer a matter before you hear it. ¹⁴ The spirit of a man can endure his sickness,
But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?
¹⁵ The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge. The ear of the wise one searches for knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:22

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

Job 1:20-21

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Job 2:7-10

Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

Job 6:4

The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.

Job 7:14-15

you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.'

Job 10:15-17

If I am wicked, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Psalm 30:9-10

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

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.

Psalm 38:2-4

Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.

Psalm 42:10-11

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

Psalm 55:3

This is because my enemy shouts at me and a wicked person persecutes me. They bring misery crashing down on me, and they attack me out of anger.

Psalm 55:5

Fear and trembling have overcome me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. I refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

Why do you reject me, O Jehovah? Why do you hide your face from me (turn from me)?

Psalm 109:22

I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart.

Psalm 147:3

He is the healer of the brokenhearted. He is the one who bandages their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

He took Peter, James and John with him. He was very distressed and troubled.

Romans 5:3-5

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our tribulations knowing that tribulation produces endurance.

Romans 8:35-37

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

To the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excess sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials.

1 Peter 1:6

You greatly rejoice in this, though you have been grieved with various trials for a little while.