Proverbs 18:14
A desire to continue to live can sustain someone when he is sick; if he loses that desire, he ◄cannot endure it/will become very discouraged► when he is sick [RHQ].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:20Job stood up, and tore his robe and shaved his head because he was very sad/grieved. Then he prostrated himself on the ground to worship God.
Job 6:4It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows. It is as though those arrows had poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit. The things that God has done to me have terrified me.
Job 10:15If I am a wicked man, I hope/wish that terrible things will happen to me. But even if I am righteous, I still must bow my head and feel ashamed, because I am very disgraced and feel miserable.
Psalms 32:3When I did not confess my sins, ◄my body/I► was very weak and sick, and I groaned ◄all day long/continually►.
Psalms 42:10They make fun of me constantly; they continually ask, “Why does your god not help you?” [RHQ] And when they insult me like that, it is like wounds that I feel even in my bones.
Psalms 55:5I am very fearful and I tremble/shake, and I am completely terrified.
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 →