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}

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. {wounds: Heb. griefs}

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; {temptations: or, trials}

So that contrariwise ye {ought} rather to forgive {him}, and comfort {him}, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}

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

{As} with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where {is} thy God? {sword: or, killing}

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? {shall} tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, {mantle: or, robe}

And not only {so}, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. {overwhelmed: Heb. covered}

For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and {if} I be righteous, {yet} will I not lift up my head. {I am} full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

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.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

A wholesome tongue {is} a tree of life: but perverseness therein {is} a breach in the spirit. {A wholesome...: Heb. The healing of the tongue}

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

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul {is} vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid {it} from me, and hath not told me. {him...: Heb. by his feet} {vexed: Heb. bitter}