25 Anxiety weighs down the heart,(A)
    but a kind word cheers it up.

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25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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24 Gracious words are a honeycomb,(A)
    sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.(B)

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24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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13 A happy heart makes the face cheerful,(A)
    but heartache crushes the spirit.(B)

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13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed(A) spirit dries up the bones.(B)

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22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

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The Sovereign Lord(A) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(B)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.(C)
He wakens me morning by morning,(D)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(E)

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The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

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23 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply(A)
    and how good is a timely word!(B)

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23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

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18 The words of the reckless pierce like swords,(A)
    but the tongue of the wise brings healing.(B)

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18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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13 So the Lord spoke(A) kind and comforting words(B) to the angel who talked with me.(C)

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13 And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

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Perfume(A) and incense bring joy to the heart,
    and the pleasantness of a friend
    springs from their heartfelt advice.

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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

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11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.(A)

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11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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14 The human spirit can endure in sickness,
    but a crushed spirit who can bear?(A)

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14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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11 Like apples[a] of gold in settings of silver(A)
    is a ruling rightly given.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots

11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

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15 All the days of the oppressed are wretched,
    but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.(A)

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15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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