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Proverbs 18

Prov. 18:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
of a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
will sustain
kuwl (Hebrew #3557)
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
KJV usage: (be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).
Pronounce: kool
Origin: a primitive root
his infirmity
machaleh (Hebrew #4245)
from 2470; sickness
KJV usage: disease, infirmity, sickness.
Pronounce: makh-al-eh'
Origin: or (feminine) machalah {makk-al-aw'}
; but a wounded
nake' (Hebrew #5218)
from 5217; smitten, i.e. (figuratively) afflicted
KJV usage: broken, stricken, wounded.
Pronounce: naw-kay'
Origin: or nakat {naw-kaw'}
k spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
who can bear
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
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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• 20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
 21And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. (Job 1:20‑21)
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Job 2:7‑10• 7So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
 8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
 9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
 10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job 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 so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
 5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (Rom. 5:3‑5)
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Rom. 8:35‑37• 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (Rom. 8:35‑37)
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2 Cor. 1:12• 12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. (2 Cor. 1:12)
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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• 9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
 10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2 Cor. 12:9‑10)
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James 1:2• 2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; (James 1:2)
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1 Peter 1:6• 6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: (1 Peter 1:6)
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Prov. 17:22• 22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Prov. 17:22)
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array 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, and death rather than my life. (Job 7:14‑15)
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Job 10:15‑17• 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
 16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. (Job 10:15‑17)
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Psa. 30:9‑10• 9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
 10Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper. (Psa. 30:9‑10)
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Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is 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 presseth me sore.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:2‑4)
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Psa. 42:10‑11• 10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
 11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou 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 wrath they hate me.
 5Fearfulness 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 sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑3)
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Psa. 88:14‑16• 14Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. (Psa. 88:14‑16)
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Psa. 109:22• 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. (Psa. 109:22)
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Mark 14:33‑34• 33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
 34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)
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2 Cor. 2:7• 7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. (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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "can raise it up."