Proverbs 14:10
The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
In Context
9The foolish make a mock at guilt: but among the upright there is good will.
11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
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 hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but 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, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Psalms 25:14The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken 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 →