Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? Writing of General Grant's last days, General Badeau says: "The physicians constantly declared that although the cancer was making irresistible advance, it was not the cancer that produced the exhaustion and nervousness which, unless arrested, would bring about death very soon. It was only too plain that the mental, moral disease was killing Grant — it was the blow which had struck him to the dust, and humiliated him before the world, from which he could not recover. He who was thought so stolid, so strong, so undemonstrative, was dying for a sentiment — because of the injury to his fame, the aspersions on his honour." (J. F. B. Tinling.) Parallel Verses KJV: The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?WEB: A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? |
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