Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
11The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.
2 Kings 4:27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 9:18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Psalms 25:14The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 18:14A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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 →