Proverbs 17:22
“A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
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Proverbs 17:22 Context
20He that hath a froward heart, findeth no good, and he that hath a peruerse tongue, falleth into mischiefe. 21He that begetteth a foole, doth it to his sorrow: and the father of a foole hath no ioy. 22A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome, to peruert the wayes of iudgement. 24Wisedome is before him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the ends of the earth.
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A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- King James Version
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- New American Standard Version (1995)