22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 17:22
Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint
The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.
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Verse 22
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A joyfulשָׂ֭מֵחַH8056Adjective - masculine singularheartלֵ֣בH3820Noun - masculine singularis goodיֵיטִ֣בH3190Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singularmedicineגֵּהָ֑הH1456Noun - feminine singularbut a brokenנְ֝כֵאָ֗הH5218Adjective - feminine singularspiritוְר֥וּחַH7307Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singulardries upתְּיַבֶּשׁ־H3001Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singularthe bonesגָּֽרֶם׃H1634Noun - masculine singular