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Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure,—but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
Proverbs 17:22 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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Proverbs 17:22 in other translations
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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In context
19 A lover of transgression, is one who loveth strife, he that heighteneth his door, seeketh grievous harm.
20 The crooked in heart, shall not find good, and, he that is perverse with his tongue, shall fall into wickedness.
21 He that begetteth a dullard, it is to his own grief, neither can the father of the base, rejoice.
22 A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure,—but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
23 A bribe out of his bosom, doth a lawless man take, to pervert the ways of justice.
24 Before the face of the discerning, is wisdom, but, the eyes of a dullard, are in the ends of the earth.
25 A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.
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