Proverbs 14:10
If you are very sad or if you are joyful, only you know what you are experiencing; no one else can know what you are feeling.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10Hannah was very distressed, and she cried very sorrowfully as she prayed to Yahweh.
2 Kings 4:27But when she came to where Elisha was, she prostrated herself on the ground in front of Elisha and took hold of his feet. Gehazi started to push her away, but Elisha said, “◄Do not push her away/Leave her alone►! Something is troubling her very much, but Yahweh has not told me what it is.”
Job 6:4It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows. It is as though those arrows had poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit. The things that God has done to me have terrified me.
Job 9:18It is as though he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
Psalms 25:14Yahweh is a friend of those who have an awesome respect for him, and he teaches them the agreement that he made with them.
Proverbs 18:14A desire to continue to live can sustain someone when he is sick; if he loses that desire, he ◄cannot endure it/will become very discouraged► when he is sick [RHQ].
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 →