All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:14A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
Proverbs 15:16Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
Treasury of Scripture
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
all
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Psalm 90:7-9
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled…
but
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
