Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
In Context
14The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.
16Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Cross References
Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the correction of fools is their folly.
Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
Romans 5:11and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 1:5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:15
Wisdom and Folly. 14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. Here are two things to be wondered at:—1. A wise man not satisfied with his wisdom, but still seeking the increase of it; the more he has the more he would have: The heart of him that has understanding, rejoices so in the knowledge it has attained to that it is still coveting more, and in the use of the means of knowledge is still labouring for more, growing in grace, and in the knowledge… Read the whole commentary →