²⁵ Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a kind word makes it glad.

¹³ A glad heart makes a cheerful face; But an aching heart breaks the spirit.

⁴ The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

²³ Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

²² A cheerful heart makes good medicine, But a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

⁵ But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

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.

¹³ Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

⁹ Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; So does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹⁴ A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, But a crushed spirit, who can bear?

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are wretched, But one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; He will not share these with a stranger.

¹¹ Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God.

⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

³³ He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

³⁴ He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."

¹ It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad in his presence.

² The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.