Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart maketh glad the face; (but) the spirit is cast down in the mourning of (the) soul.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 man full of pestilence loveth not him that reproveth him; and he goeth not to wise men.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25Mourning in the heart of a just man shall make him meek; and he shall be made glad by a good word. (Mourning in the heart of a righteous person shall make him weak; but he shall be made happy by a good, or by a kind, word.)
Proverbs 17:22A joyful soul maketh liking age (or A joyful soul maketh a good life); a sorrowful spirit maketh dry bones.
John 14:1Be not your heart afraid [or distroubled], nor dread it, (or Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it have fear or let it be fearful); ye believe in God, and believe ye in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7so that on the contrary ye rather forgive and comfort (or strengthen), lest peradventure he that is such a manner man, be swallowed up, [or be sopped up, or despair], by more great heaviness.
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 →