If a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.

When the heart rejoices, the countenance is cheerful, but when it is in sorrow, the countenance is sad.

The eyes of the wicked are always looking for evil things, but the good are always quiet.

A bad man will by no means obey counsel, neither will he say anything seasonable, or of good report.

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

A wise servant calms a man's anger, but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

And it came to pass in the month of Nisan of the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that the wine was before me. And I took the wine, and gave [it] to the king; and there was not another before him.

And the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, and you do not control yourself? And now this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much alarmed,

I have been wretched and bowed down continually; I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; [He is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be greatly amazed, and deeply depressed.

Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and watch."

Some wound as they speak, like swords, but the tongues of the wise heal.

A bad man will by no means obey counsel, neither will he say anything seasonable, or of good report.

Good words are [like] honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.

As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so [is it] to speak a wise word.

The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes, but the soul is broken by calamities.

The Lord, [even] God, gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word; He has appointed for me early, He has given me an ear to hear;

And the Lord Almighty answered the angel that spoke with me good words and comforting sayings.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

Sufficient to such a person is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the majority,