Proverbs 14:10
The heart, knoweth its own bitterness, and, in its joy, no stranger shareth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9the foolish, scoff at guilt, but, between the upright, is good pleasure.
11The house of the lawless, shall be destroyed, but, the tent of the upright, shall flourish.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10and, she being in bitterness of soul, prayed unto Yahweh, and, wept sore.
2 Kings 4:27But, when she came unto the man of God, on the mount, she caught hold of his feet,—and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away, when the man of God said—Let her alone! for, her life, is embittered to her, howbeit, Yahweh, hath hidden it from me, and hath not told me.
Job 6:4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.
Job 9:18He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
Psalms 25:14Intimacy with Yahweh, have they who revere him, His covenant also, he letteth them know.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man, sustaineth his sickness, but, a dejected spirit, who can 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 →