Verse List for PROV 17:22

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OET (OET-RV) A cheerful attitude promotes healing, ⇔ ^ but a crushed spirit makes your bones dry up.

OET-LV A _heart joyful it _makes _good healing and_spirit stricken it _dries _up the_bone[s].

ULT A joyful heart makes healing good, ⇔ but a broken spirit dries up bone.

UST Being cheerful helps the body to heal, ⇔  but being discouraged makes the body weak.

BSB & MSB A joyful heart is good medicine, ⇔  but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB A cheerful heart makes good medicine, ⇔  but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

NET A cheerful heart brings good healing, ⇔ but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

LSV A rejoicing heart does good to the body,
And a struck spirit dries the bone.

FBV A cheerful attitude is like good medicine, but discouragement makes you sick.[fn]

T4T ⇔  Being cheerful is like swallowing good medicine; ⇔  being discouraged/gloomy all the time will ◄drain away your energy/cause you to become weak► [MTY].

LEB • A cheerful heart is good medicine,
• but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

BBE A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

Moff A glad heart helps and heals: ⇔  a broken spirit saps vitality.

JPS A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

ASV A cheerful heart is a good medicine; ⇔ But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

DRA A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

YLT A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

Drby A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

RV A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
(A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth/dries up the bones.)

SLT A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.

Wbstr A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

KJB-1769 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.[fn]
(A merry heart doeth/does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth/dries the bones.)

KJB-1611 [fn]A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps A mery heart make a lustie age: but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp the bones.
(A merry heart make a lustie age: but a sorrowful mind drieth/dries up the bones.)

Gnva A ioyfull heart causeth good health: but a sorowfull minde dryeth the bones.
(A joyful heart causeth good health: but a sorrowful mind drieth/dries the bones.)

Cvdl A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.
(A merry heart maketh/makes a lusty age, but a sorrowful mide drieth/dries up ye/you_all bones.)

Wycl A ioiful soule makith likinge age; a sorewful spirit makith drie boonys.
(A joyful soul maketh/makes likinge age; a sorrowful spirit maketh/makes dry bones.)

Luth Ein fröhlich Herz macht das Leben lustig; aber ein betrübter Mut vertrocknet das Gebeine.
(A cheerful heart power the life funny; but a saddenedr courage/heart/spirit dried_up the bones.)

ClVg Animus gaudens ætatem floridam facit; spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa.
(Animus gaudens age floridam he/it_does; spirit sad/bitter exsiccat bones.)

UHB לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב גֵּהָ֑ה וְ⁠ר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה תְּיַבֶּשׁ־גָּֽרֶם׃ ‡

BrLXX Καρδία εὐφραινομένη εὐεκτεῖν ποιεῖ, ἀνδρὸς δὲ λυπηροῦ ξηραίνεται τὰ ὀστᾶ.

BrTr A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.