Proverbs 15:15

Modern

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Traditional

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Literal

All the days of the afflicted are evil, and a good heart is a continual feast.

Latin

Omnes dies pauperis, mali; secura mens quasi juge convivium.

Hebrew

English

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Our personality shapes how we see life.

2 Corinthians 6:10
…sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Romans 5:11
Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 5:2–3
…through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
Acts 16:25
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
1 Peter 1:6–8
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.