Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.

A merry heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a stricken spirit?

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.

When I kept silent, my bones wore out through my roaring all day long.

For by day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones are burned like a firebrand.

Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and encourage him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.