Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
In Context
12A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.
14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 17:22A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:13
12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. A scorner is one that not only makes a jest of God and religion, but bids defiance to the methods employed for his conviction and reformation, and, as an evidence of that, 1. He cannot endure the checks of his own conscience, nor will he suffer it to deal plainly with him: He loves not to reprove him (so some read it); he cannot endure to retire into his own heart and commune seriously with that, will not admit of any free thought or… Read the whole commentary →