Proverbs 17:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 17:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Romans 5:2-5
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22)

Note, 1. It is healthful to be cheerful. The Lord is for the body, and has provided for it, not only meat, but medicine, and has here told us that the best medicine is a merry heart, not a heart addicted to vain, carnal, sensual mirth; Solomon himself said of that mirth, It is not medicine, but madness; it is not food, but poison; what doth it? But he means a heart rejoicing in God, and serving hi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. (Compare Pr 14:30; 15:13). The effect of the mind on the body is well known. medicine--or, “body,” which better corresponds with “bone.” drieth--as if the marrow were exhausted.