Pleasant words {are as} an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to {him that is} weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word {spoken} in due season, how good {is it}! {due...: Heb. his season}

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so {doth} the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. {by...: Heb. from the counsel of the soul}

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, {who is} the health of my countenance, and my God.

And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me {with} good words {and} comfortable words.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise {is} health.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

A word fitly spoken {is like} apples of gold in pictures of silver. {fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his wheels}

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. {his own...: Heb. the bitterness of his soul}

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, {that} wine {was} before him: and I took up the wine, and gave {it} unto the king. Now I had not been {beforetime} sad in his presence.

All the days of the afflicted {are} evil: but he that is of a merry heart {hath} a continual feast.

A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

With him {is} an arm of flesh; but with us {is} the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. {rested...: Heb. leaned}

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that {were} with him in Babylon, {kindly...: Heb. good things with him}