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

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

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

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

⁴ 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.

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

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

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

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

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.