Proverbs 14:10
The mind alone knows its sadness, and no one else can share its happiness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9Stupid people laugh at sin, but good people want forgiveness.
11The house of wicked people will be destroyed, but the tent of good people will prosper.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10She was terribly upset, and prayed to the Lord as she cried and cried.
2 Kings 4:27But when she got to the man of God at the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she's in terrible misery, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not explained it to me.”
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; their poison saps my spirit. God's terrors are lined up against me.
Job 9:18He doesn't give me a chance even to catch my breath; instead he fills my life with bitter suffering.
Psalms 25:14The Lord is friends with those who respect him, explaining to them his agreement.
Proverbs 18:14With a brave spirit you can put up with sickness, but if it's crushed, you can't bear it.
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 →