Proverbs 12:25

“a good word--one of comfort.”

“A good word - A compassionate or encouraging word. Proverbs 12:26”

“Heaviness: Pro 14:10, Pro 15:13, Pro 15:15, Pro 15:23, Pro 17:22, Pro 18:14; Neh 2:1, Neh 2:2; Psa 38:6, Psa 42:11; Mar 14:33, Mar 14:34 but: Pro 12:18, Pro 15:23, Pro 16:24, Pro 25:11, Pro 27:9; Isa 50:4; Zac 1:13; Co2 2:4-7 Proverbs 12:26”

“25 Trouble in the heart of a man boweth it down, And a friendly word maketh it glad. The twofold anomaly that דּאגה is construed as masc. and לב as fem. renders the text doubtful, but the lxx, Syr., Targum, which introduce another subject, φοβερὸς λόγος (דּבר מדאיג?), do not improve it; Theodotion's is preferable, who translates μέριμνα ἐν καρδίᾳ ἀνδρὸς κατίσχει αὐτόν, and thus reads ישׁחנּוּ. But the rhyme is thereby lost. As כּבוד, Gen 49:6, so also may לב be used as fem., for one thereby thinks on נפשׁ; the plur. לבּות (לבבות), according to which in Eze 16:30 we find the sing. לבּה, may also conform to this. And ישׁחנה as pred. to דאגה follows the scheme Pro 2:10, perhaps not…”