It is also a known fact in life that there needs to be times of laughter and mirth if we are going to have a healthy life. This is not the only time that Proverbs talks about one's inner life affecting a person's well-being. There is a time to laugh. Just as sure as there is a time to weep, there is a time to laugh. There is a time to wipe the tears away and to put a smile on your face.
Inner joy shows up on the face.
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. And they began to be merry.