New Revised Standard Version
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Contemporary English Version
Happiness makes you smile; sorrow can crush you.

New American Bible
A glad heart lights up the face, but an anguished heart breaks the spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.

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Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

Proverbs 17:22 A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

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Proverbs 12:25 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?

Nehemiah 2:2 And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:

John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.