Proverbs 14:10
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; 1 And a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 1
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9Fools make a mock at sin: 1 But among the righteous there is favour. 1
11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: 1 But the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
2 Kings 4:27And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, 1 The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: 1 The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 1
Job 9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, 1 But filleth me with bitterness. 1
Psalms 25:14(ס) The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; 1 And he will shew them his covenant. 1
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; 1 But a wounded spirit who can bear? 1
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 →