Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man sustains his sickness, || And who bears a struck spirit?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
In Context
13Whoever is answering a matter before he hears, || It is folly to him—and shame.
15The heart of the intelligent gets knowledge, || And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Cross References
Job 1:20And Job rises, and tears his robe, and shaves his head, and falls to the earth, and pays respect,
Job 6:4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
Job 10:15If I have done wickedly—woe to me, || And righteously—I do not lift up my head, || Full of shame—then see my affliction,
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, my bones have become old, || Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 42:10With a sword in my bones || My adversaries have reproached me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling come to me, || And horror covers 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 →