25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you. But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you). Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him; So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.
A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.
The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present. And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
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Commentary on Proverbs 12 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 12
Pro 12:1
We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace.
Pro 12:2
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Pro 12:3
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Pro 12:4
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Pro 12:5
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Pro 12:6
In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words, and those are as the abundance of the heart is.
Pro 12:7
We are here taught as before (v. 3 and ch. 10:25, 30),
Pro 12:8
We are here told whence to expect a good name. Reputation is what most have a high regard to and stand much upon. Now it is certain,
Pro 12:9
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Pro 12:10
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Pro 12:11
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Pro 12:12
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Pro 12:13
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Pro 12:14
We are here assured, for our quickening to every good word and work,
Pro 12:15
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Pro 12:16
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Pro 12:17
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Pro 12:18
The tongue is death or life, poison or medicine, as it is used.
Pro 12:19
Be it observed, to the honour of truth, that sacred thing,
Pro 12:20
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Pro 12:21
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Pro 12:22
We are here taught,
Pro 12:23
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Pro 12:24
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Pro 12:25
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Pro 12:26
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Pro 12:27
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Pro 12:28
The way of religion is here recommended to us,