Proverbs 18:14
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

Young's Literal Translation
The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

King James Bible
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Hebrew
The spirit
רֽוּחַ־ (rū·aḥ-)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of a man
אִ֭ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

can endure
יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל (yə·ḵal·kêl)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3557: To keep in, to measure, to maintain

his sickness,
מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ (ma·ḥă·lê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4245: Sickness, disease

but who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can survive
יִשָּׂאֶֽנָּה׃ (yiś·śā·’en·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

a broken
נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה (nə·ḵê·’āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 5218: Smitten, afflicted

spirit?
וְר֥וּחַ (wə·rū·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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