Proverbs 18:14

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹³ He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him. ¹⁴ A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? ¹⁵ The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Lifted Up

Spirit of Man

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart makes 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 down on the ground, and worshiped.

Job 2:7-10

So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God 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 to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Psalm 30:9-10

"What profit is there in my destruction, if 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 wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:2-4

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Psalm 42:10-11

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Psalm 55:3

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Psalm 55:5

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalm 77:2-3

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-16

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalm 109:22

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Mark 14:33-34

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

Romans 5:3-5

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Romans 8:35-37

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:7

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

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

1 Peter 1:6

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,