Proverbs 18:14
What does Proverbs 18:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 18:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
KJV
King James Version · 1611The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.
- Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
- Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
- Mark 14:33
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.
- 2 Corinthians 2:7
so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
- Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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