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Prov. 18:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a woundedk spirit who can bear?

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Psa. 147:3• ³He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (Psa. 147:3)

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Job 1:20‑21• ²⁰And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped;
²¹and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah! (Job 1:20‑21)

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Job 2:7‑10• ⁷And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
⁸And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
⁹And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.
¹⁰But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. (Job 2:7‑10)

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Psa. 147:3• ³He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (Psa. 147:3)

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Rom. 5:3‑5• ³And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;
⁴and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
⁵and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us: (Rom. 5:3‑5)

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Rom. 8:35‑37• ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
³⁶According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
³⁷But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us. (Rom. 8:35‑37)

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2 Cor. 1:12• ¹²For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 1:12)

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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• ⁹And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful. (2 Cor. 12:9‑10)

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James 1:2• ²Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, (James 1:2)

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1 Peter 1:6• ⁶Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials, (1 Peter 1:6)

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Prov. 17:22• ²²A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones. (Prov. 17:22)

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Job 6:4• ⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me. (Job 6:4)

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Job 7:14‑15• ¹⁴Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. (Job 7:14‑15)

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Job 10:15‑17• ¹⁵If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;--
¹⁶And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me. (Job 10:15‑17)

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Psa. 30:9‑10• ⁹What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
¹⁰Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my helper. (Psa. 30:9‑10)

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Psa. 32:3‑4• ³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)

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Psa. 38:2‑4• ²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:2‑4)

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Psa. 42:10‑11• ¹⁰As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
¹¹Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 42:10‑11)

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Psa. 55:3,5• ³Because 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.
⁵Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. (Psa. 55:3,5)

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Psa. 77:2‑3• ²In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑3)

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Psa. 88:14‑16• ¹⁴Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
¹⁵I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.
¹⁶Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought: (Psa. 88:14‑16)

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Psa. 109:22• ²²For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. (Psa. 109:22)

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Mark 14:33‑34• ³³And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be amazed and oppressed in spirit.
³⁴And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; abide here and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)

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2 Cor. 2:7• ⁷so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief. (2 Cor. 2:7)

• When the spirit of praise fills the soul, one is enabled to rise above the infirmities of the body and the trials of the way. But let the joy be lost and the spirit be broken, then defeat is certain. (“Proverbs Eighteen” by H.A. Ironside)

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The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bearc?

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Or "can raise it up."