Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will readily bear his disease; but a depressed spirit who can bear:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
In Context
13When one returneth an answer before he understandeth [the question], it is folly unto him and shame.
Cross References
Job 1:20Then arose Job, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and prostrated himself.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction;
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Psalms 42:10(42:11) It is as death in my bones, when my assailants reproach me; when they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 55:5(55:6) Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:14
13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. See here how men often expose themselves by that very thing by which they hope to gain applause. 1. Some take a pride in being quick. They answer a matter before they hear it, hear it out, nay, as soon as they but hear of it. They think it is their honour to take up a cause suddenly; and, when they have heard one side, they think the matter so plain that they need not trouble themselves to hear the other; they are already apprized… Read the whole commentary →