Saturday, October 04, 2008

A Merry Heart and Medicine

Proverbs 17:22. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

(Good News) Being cheerful keeps you healthy.

(Smith-Goodspeed) A happy heart is a healing medicine…

(Basic English) A glad heart makes a healthy body…

(Moffatt) A glad heart helps and heals…

(Jerusalem) A glad heart is excellent medicine, a spirit depressed wastes

the bones away.

(Knox) A cheerful heart makes a quick recovery; it is crushed spirits that

waste a man’s frame.

(Fenton) The best medicine is a cheerful heart…

(Rotherham) A joyful heart worketh an excellent cure…

(Living Bible) …a broken spirit makes one sick.