25 Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.
A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.
The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary `by' a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.
Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.
for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that `is' by the more part, so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;
Apples of gold in imagery of silver, `Is' the word spoken at its fit times.
The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine `is' before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him; and the king saith to me, `Wherefore `is' thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,
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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,