Proverbs 14:10
The heart that knows the bitterness of its own soul, in its gladness the outsider shall not meddle.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9The foolish will speak mockingly of sin. But grace lingers among the just.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And since Hannah was bitter in soul, she prayed to the Lord, weeping greatly.
2 Kings 4:27And when she had arrived at the man of God, on the mount, she took hold of his feet. And Gehazi drew near, so that he might remove her. But the man of God said: “Permit her. For her soul is in bitterness. And the Lord has concealed it from me, and has not revealed it to me.”
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
Job 9:18He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man sustains his weakness. Yet who can sustain a spirit that is easily angered?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:10
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call evil good and good evil ( Isa. v. 20 ), turn it off with a jest, rush into sin ( Jer. viii. 6 ) and… Read the whole commentary →