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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• ³The healer of the broken-hearted,{HR}And binding up their wounds. (Psa. 147:3)

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Job 1:20‑21• ²⁰And Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshipped,
²¹and 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 smote Job with malignant ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
⁸And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he was sitting among the ashes.
⁹And his wife said 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. Ay! shall we receive the good from God himself, and shall we not receive the evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:7‑10)

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Psa. 147:3• ³The healer of the broken-hearted,{HR}And binding up their wounds. (Psa. 147:3)

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Rom. 5:3‑5• ³And not only [so], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh out endurance;
⁴and endurance proof, and proof hope:
⁵and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit that was 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 anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
³⁶according as it is written, “For thy sake are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”
³⁷But in all these things we more than overcome by him that 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 holiness f and sincerity before God, not in carnal wisdom but in God's grace, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 1:12)

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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• ⁹and he hath said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for [my] power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest on me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong. (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, now for a little (if it is needful) put to grief in manifold trials, (1 Peter 1:6)

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Prov. 17:22• ²²A joyful heart causeth good healing;{HR}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 in me,{HR}The poison of which my spirit drinketh up.{HR}The terrors of God array themselves against me. (Job 6:4)

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Job 7:14‑15• ¹⁴Then thou shakest me with dreams,{HR}And makest me tremble through visions of the night,
¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling,{HR}Death rather than these bones: I would not live on; (Job 7:14‑15)

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Job 10:15‑17• ¹⁵If I be guilty, woe unto me!{HR}And righteous, I durst not raise my head,{HR}Filled with shame, and seeing my misery;
¹⁶And should it hold itself up, as a lion thou wouldest hunt me,{HR}And turn again, and act wondrously against me.
¹⁷Thou wouldest renew thy witnesses against me{HR}And multiply thy displeasure against me —{HR}Reinforcements, and a host upon me. (Job 10:15‑17)

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Psa. 30:9‑10• ⁹What gain [is] in my blood, in my going down to the pit?{HR}Shall dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
¹⁰Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious to me;{HR}O Jehovah, be a helper unto me. (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.
⁴For by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)

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Psa. 38:2‑4• ²For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:2‑4)

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Psa. 42:10‑11• ¹⁰With a sword in my bones mine oppressors have reproached me,{HR}When they say all the day unto me, Where is thy God?
¹¹Why art thou cast down,{HR}[O] my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?{HR}Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him,{HR}The help of my countenance and my God. (Psa. 42:10‑11)

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Psa. 55:3,5• ³Because of the oppression of the wicked;{HR}For they cast iniquity upon me,{HR}And in anger they persecute me.
⁵Fear and trembling are come upon me,{HR}And horror hath overwhelmed me. (Psa. 55:3,5)

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

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Psa. 88:14‑16• ¹⁴Why, O Jehovah, dost thou cast off my soul?{HR}Hidest thou thy face from me?
¹⁵Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted.
¹⁶Thy fierce angers have come over me;{HR}Thy terrors have cut me off, (Psa. 88:14‑16)

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Psa. 109:22• ²²For as to me I [am] poor and needy,{HR}And my heart 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 deeply depressed.
³⁴And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; tarry here and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)

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2 Cor. 2:7• ⁷so that, on the contrary, ye should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such an one 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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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."

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aThe spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;{HR}But a wounded spirit who can bear?

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Or, raise up.