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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 17:22
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A joyful heart is good medicine,but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, But a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A happy heart is like good medicine, but a broken spirit drains your strength.
A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, But a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
A ioyfull heart causeth good health: but a sorowfull minde dryeth the bones.
A glad heart is good medicine,But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
If you are cheerful, you feel good; if you are sad, you hurt all over.
A happy heart is good medicine, but low spirits sap one's strength.
A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
Happiness is good medicine, but sorrow is a disease.
A merry heart makes the body healthy; but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
A cheerful heart makes good healing, but a stricken spirit dries the bone.
A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A mery heart make a lustie age: but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp the bones.
A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.
A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A ioiful soule makith likinge age; a sorewful spirit makith drie boonys.
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
A merry heart does good, like medicine, [fn] But a broken spirit dries the bones.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.
A glad heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, - but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
merry: Proverbs 12:25, Proverbs 15:13, Proverbs 18:14, Ecclesiastes 9:7-9, Romans 5:2-5
like a medicine: Heb. to a medicine
a broken: Psalms 22:15, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 102:3-5, 2 Corinthians 2:7, 2 Corinthians 7:10
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 8:10 - the joy Psalms 102:5 - the voice Proverbs 14:30 - rottenness Proverbs 15:15 - but Proverbs 15:30 - a good Isaiah 66:14 - your bones
Cross-References
Overwhelmed, Abram fell flat on his face. Then God said to him, "This is my covenant with you: You'll be the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that ‘I'm making you the father of many nations.' I'll make you a father of fathers—I'll make nations from you, kings will issue from you. I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants. And I'm giving you and your descendants this land where you're now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I'll be their God."
God continued to Abraham, "And you: You will honor my covenant, you and your descendants, generation after generation. This is the covenant that you are to honor, the covenant that pulls in all your descendants: Circumcise every male. Circumcise by cutting off the foreskin of the penis; it will be the sign of the covenant between us. Every male baby will be circumcised when he is eight days old, generation after generation—this includes house-born slaves and slaves bought from outsiders who are not blood kin. Make sure you circumcise both your own children and anyone brought in from the outside. That way my covenant will be cut into your body, a permanent mark of my permanent covenant. An uncircumcised male, one who has not had the foreskin of his penis cut off, will be cut off from his people—he has broken my covenant."
God continued speaking to Abraham, "And Sarai your wife: Don't call her Sarai any longer; call her Sarah. I'll bless her—yes! I'll give you a son by her! Oh, how I'll bless her! Nations will come from her; kings of nations will come from her."
When God finished talking with Abraham, he left. And Abraham went home.
God said to Moses, "Give this Message to the People of Israel: ‘You've experienced firsthand how I spoke with you from Heaven. Don't make gods of silver and gods of gold and then set them alongside me. Make me an earthen Altar. Sacrifice your Whole-Burnt-Offerings, your Peace-Offerings, your sheep, and your cattle on it. Every place where I cause my name to be honored in your worship, I'll be there myself and bless you. If you use stones to make my Altar, don't use dressed stones. If you use a chisel on the stones you'll profane the Altar. Don't use steps to climb to my Altar because that will expose your nakedness.'"
The angel of God stretched out the tip of the stick he was holding and touched the meat and the bread. Fire broke out of the rock and burned up the meat and bread while the angel of God slipped away out of sight. And Gideon knew it was the angel of God! Gideon said, "Oh no! Master, God ! I have seen the angel of God face-to-face!"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A merry heart doth good [like] a medicine,.... Does the body good, makes it healthful and vigorous. Cheerfulness of spirit has a great influence upon the body, and much contributes to the health and welfare of it; see Ecclesiastes 9:7; and especially a heart full of spiritual joy, peace of conscience, flowing from the blood of Christ, joy in the Holy Ghost, a rejoicing in Christ Jesus and his righteousness, and in hope of the glory of God, much affect even the outward man. Or, "a merry heart makes a good medicine" x; it is a good medicine of itself; raises the spirits, invigorates the body, and fits it for service and business: or, "does a medicine good" y; makes that operate kindly, and to a good purpose: or, as Jarchi, makes the countenance shine well, makes a serene countenance; which Schultens approves, and, from the use of the word in the Arabic language, confirms;
but a broken spirit drieth the bones; a spirit broken with sorrow, whether on spiritual or temporal accounts; as it weakens the nerves, it dries up the marrow in the bones, and emaciates the body, and reduces it to a skeleton: the joy or grief of the mind, those passions of the soul, have a very great influence upon the body, either for its good or hurt.
x לב שמח ייטב גהה "cor hilare bonam facit sanationem", Michaelis. y So R. Joseph Kimchi; "bonificat sive meliorem reddit medicinam", some in Valablus; "bene medicinam facit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Doeth good like a medicine - Better, worketh a good healing. Omit “like.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:22. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine — Instead of גהה gehah, a medicine, it appears that the Chaldee and Syriac had read in their copies גוה gevah, the body, as they translate in this way. This makes the apposition here more complete: "A merry heart doeth good to the body; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Nothing has such a direct tendency to ruin health and waste out life as grief, anxiety, fretfulness, bad tempers, &c. All these work death.
