Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Darby Translation
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 scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise.
14The heart of an intelligent [man] seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish feedeth on folly.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me.
2 Corinthians 2:7so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
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 →