25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart ; it is a load of care, and fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, depressing them, and disabling them to exert themselves with any vigour on what is to be done or fortitude in what is to borne; it makes them stoop, prostrates and sinks them. Those that are thus oppressed can neither do the duty nor take the comfort of…
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