Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
World English Bible British
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 doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
14The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Proverbs 17:22A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
John 14:1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive 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 →